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, Monday through Friday, with a weekend edition delivered on Saturday mornings. It is based in

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, United States. It also covers surrounding communities in Fayette, Greenbrier,

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. It has a circulation of 19,237 and is owned by Community Newspaper Newspaper Holdings.

History

The newspaper traces its history to the ''Raleigh Register'', the ''Raleigh Herald'', and the ''Beckley Evening Post'', which were among a dozen weekly and monthly publications published in and around Beckley as early as the 1880s. The ''Raleigh Register'' developed into a modern daily newspaper and began seven-day publication on June 6, 1923. The ''Evening Post'' began daily publication on February 12, 1924. On May 31, 1926 the ''Herald and Evening Post'' combined as a morning daily newspaper known as the ''Beckley Post-Herald''. On June 1, 1928, the ''Raleigh Register'' and ''Beckley Post-Herald'' came under

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, with the ''Post-Herald'' publishing Monday-Friday mornings, the ''Register'' publishing Monday-Friday afternoons, and with subscribers receiving a combined paper produced by the ''Post-Herald'' staff on Saturday and the ''Register'' staff on Sunday. Despite the common ownership, the ''Register'' was generally a Democratic newspaper, and the ''Post-Herald'' a Republican alternative. This arrangement continued until the sale of the newspapers to the owners of the ''

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'' in 1977. Following this, the editorial independence of the two publications declined, and the ''Register'' was slowly shut down. By 1981 the ''Register'' was simply an afternoon reprint and update of the ''Post-Herald'', with a separate editorial page. On January 1, 1985 the two newspapers were completely combined under the current name. The newspaper changed hands three times in the 1990s, before being acquired by its current owners in 2000. Circulation has waned with the declining population of the area. Beckley Newspapers, a division of

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Inc., publishes the ''Register-Herald'' and two weekly newspapers, the ''Fayette Tribune'' and the ''Montgomery Herald''.The Register-Herald: Department Email Information
accessed January 20, 2007.

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External links

''The Register-Herald'' website

CNHI website

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