''The Skagway News'' is a newspaper published once a month in January, then twice a month for the rest of the year in

Skagway The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up from 968 in 2010. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with the large ...

Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...

. The paper is usually available on the second and fourth Friday of the month.

History

A different paper by a similar title, ''The Skaguay News'' or at various times ''Skaguay Weekly News'' and ''Skaguay Daily News'', was published in Skagway from 1897 to the early 1900s. The present-day ''Skagway News'' was first established in 1978 by William J. "Jeff" Brady. It merged from 1978 to 1979 with the Haines-based ''Chilkat Valley News'' to form the ''Lynn Canal News'', and then resumed publishing as a separate paper in 1982. Larry Persily, whose friend had founded the paper, acquired it in April 2019. In 2019 Persily was seeking to give the newspaper to a new owner for free. Persily chose Melinda Munson and Gretchen Wehmhoff, two women from Chugiak, Alaska, to take over the paper. Munson and Wehmhoff took over March 3, 2020, just days before a

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due to the

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was officially declared. In October 2023, Munson left the paper. Wehmhoff is now the sole publisher.

References

External links

Official site

Chronicling America page
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