- The Weekly Recorder
The Weekly Recorder is a 120 year old weekly newspaper in
Claysville, Pennsylvania ,USA .It has been printed every week except for one three month period in 1960's. Fact|date=March 2008
It was founded by a man named Irwin, who sold it in its first year to the Melvin family.Fact|date=March 2008 George Melvin sold it in the 1960s, after briefly closing it, to Gene Shaw. Shaw ran the company till 1973, when he sold it to "Buck" and Betty Jones. They continued the newspaper until the sold in 1982 to Douglas Teagarden. Teagarden ran the paper until 2002 when he sold it Cody Knotts. Till the last five years, the paper concentrated on the news of the McGuffey School District in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Recently it switched format and become an investigative tabloid concentrating on politics and crime.Fact|date=March 2008
It won an award from the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in 2004 for its on-going coverage of the November 3, 2003 murders of Frederick Brilla and Martin Brahler, otherwise known as the Election Day Massacre.Fact|date=March 2008External links
* [http://www.weekly-recorder.com/ The Weekly Recorder website]
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