''Indiana Plain Dealer'' is a weekly newspaper covering

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, Wabash and

Huntington, Indiana Huntington, known as the "Lime City", is the largest city in and the county seat of Huntington County, Indiana, Huntington County, Indiana, United States. It is in Huntington Township, Huntington County, Indiana, Huntington and Union Township, H ...

. It was formed in April 2024 from the merger of the ''Huntington Herald-Press, Wabash Plain Dealer'' and ''Peru Tribune.''

History

The newspaper dates back to the founding of the ''Indiana Herald'' in 1848. It was renamed to ''Huntington Herald'' in 1887, and in 1930 it merged with ''Huntington Press'' and became the ''Huntington Herald-Press''. In the early 1960s, Eugene C. Pulliam, owner of Central Newspapers, Inc., sold the paper to his son-in-law James C. Quayle. He died in 2000 and his wife Corrine Quayle sold the paper in 2007 to

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. The ''Peru Tribune'' was first published on April 16, 1921. Nixon Newspapers sold it to

in 1998 along with its sister paper, the ''Wabash Plain Dealer,'' founded in 1858''.'' In April 2024, Paxton merged the ''Peru Tribune'', ''Wabash'' ''Plain Dealer'' and ''Huntington Herald-Press'' together to form a new weekly publication called the ''Indiana Plain Dealer''.

References

External links

The Herald-Press online edition

Info on Herald-Press at Indiana Find
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