The Yadkin Ripple

Infobox Newspaper
name = The Yadkin Ripple


caption = The June 7, 2007 front page of
"The Yadkin Ripple"
type = Weekly newspaper (Published Thursday afternoons)
format = Broadsheet
foundation = 1892
ceased publication =
price = USD 0.75
owners = Heartland Publications, LLC
publisher =
editor = Lonnie Adams
circulation = 6,000
headquarters = 115 Jackson Street
Yadkinville, North Carolina 27055
USA
ISSN =
website = [http://www.yadkinripple.com yadkinripple.com]

"The Yadkin Ripple" is a weekly newspaper based in Yadkinville, North Carolina. It was first published in East Bend, North Carolina, on October 18, 1892.

"The Ripple", published on Thursdays, was purchased in June 2007 by Heartland Publications. It has a circulation of 6,000, according to Mid-South Management Company Inc., its former owner. It shares a publisher and its production staff with "The Tribune" in Elkin and is printed at " The Mount Airy News."

Overview

Mattie Johnson Hall, who used the pseudonym "Meddlesome Mattie," started "The Ripple" in East Bend in 1892. She named it after watching a ripple over a dam on the Yadkin River. ["An Illustrated History of Yadkin County, 1850-1980", by W.E. Rutledge Jr., Page 90] In 1896, the paper was sold to attorney Elisha Stanford who moved the offices to Yadkinville.

In 1909, it was sold to W.E. Rutledge Sr. Rutledge was owner, editor and publisher of the paper until his death in 1966. The paper remained in the Rutledge family until 2002 when it was sold to Mid-South Management Company Inc. of Spartanburg, South Carolina. "The Yadkin Enterprise", another weekly Yadkinville newspaper, then merged into "The Ripple".

In June 2007, "The Ripple" and its sister publications were sold to Heartland Publications LLC of Connecticut. [ [http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173351450517&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099 Yadkin, Surry, Stokes newspapers are bought Winston-Salem Journal (accessed 3 June 2007)] ] A week after the sale, Rebel Good, publisher of "The Ripple" and "The Tribune", left his position along with a number of senior staffers. Good and former Mount Airy News publisher Michael Milligan plan to launch a newspaper to compete with "The Mount Airy News". [ [http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173351899766 "Locals launch competing Mount Airy newspaper," Winston-Salem Journal, July 5, 2007] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.yadkinripple.com/ The Yadkin Ripple]
* [http://www.heartlandpublications.com/ Heartland Publications]
* [http://www.midsouthmanagement.com/ Mid-South Management]
* [http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/ncnp/yadki.htm North Carolina Newspaper Project]