Civitas Media, LLC was a

Davidson, North Carolina Davidson is a suburban town located in northern Mecklenburg and Iredell counties, North Carolina, United States, on the banks of Lake Norman. It is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 10,944 at the 2010 census, and in ...

-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of

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, and

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's central division. In 2017, Civitas sold its newspapers in

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, West Virginia, Kentucky,

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, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. It kept the ''

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'' in

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until it sold that newspaper in 2019.

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