The ''Fayette Tribune'' is a newspaper serving

Oak Hill, West Virginia Oak Hill is a city in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States and is the primary city within the Oak Hill, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. The micropolitan area is also included in the Beckley-Oak Hill, WV Combined Statistical Area. The ...

, and surrounding Fayette County. Published Monday and Thursday, it has a circulation of 1,093 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings.

History

In 1915, Charles A. Goddard acquired the ''Fayette Tribune and Free Press'', a name simplified to the ''Fayette Tribune'' in 1924. In 1930 the ''Tribune'' was sold to the Woodyard brothers, who also purchased the ''Fayette Democrat''. The ''Fayette Tribune'' was the first newspaper to call attention to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster, a large scale incident of occupational silicosis, considered to be one of the worst industrial tragedies in the history of the United States. Reporting in February 1931 the paper broke the story: : "Their icis a great deal of comment regarding the unusually large number of deaths among the colored laborers in the tunnel works. The deaths totaled about 37 in the past two weeks." The mining continued, however, resulting in an estimated 476 deaths before construction halted.

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