The ''Appeal-Democrat'' is a daily

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newspaper printed in

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, United States. It has an estimated circulation of 13,000 copies a day, primarily in Yuba and Sutter counties. The paper also is sold in

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to the west and Butte County to the north.

History

The ''Appeal-Democrat'' formed from the 1926 merger of two earlier newspapers, the ''Marysville Appeal'' (founded in 1860) and the ''Marysville Evening Democrat'' (founded in 1884). R.C. Hoiles, who built the

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newspaper chain around the Santa Ana paper that became the

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, bought the ''Appeal-Democrat'' in 1946 and placed his son-in-law Robert C. Hardie in charge as its publisher. Hardie directed the paper for the next 55 years, as circulation rose from about 7,500 to more than 20,000. Even as residents and businesses gradually shifted west from Marysville to nearby

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, Hardie kept the ''Appeal-Democrat'' in its longtime home, twice acquiring new headquarters there (in 1950 and 1986). In 2013, Freedom sold the ''Appeal-Democrat'' to Vista California, a subsidiary of Horizon Publications.

Subsidiaries

The ''Appeal-Democrat'' also publishes the ''Colusa County Sun-Herald'', the ''Corning Observer'', and the ''Glenn County Transcript''.

References

External links

''Appeal-Democrat'' official siteOfficial mobile website
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