The ''Ashe Post & Times'' is a bi-weekly

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printed in

West Jefferson, North Carolina West Jefferson is a town in Ashe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,299 at the 2010 census. History West Jefferson was incorporated in 1909. At one time, West Jefferson had the distinction of having the only cheese factor ...

. It prints news, announcements, and obituaries as the newspaper of record for Ashe County. The newspaper formed after ''The Jefferson Post'' and ''Ashe Mountain Times'' merged in 2017. The newspaper is owned by

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History

The ''Jefferson Post'' began publishing in 1988. The newspaper is the result of a merger between Ashe County's historic weekly newspaper ''The Skyland Post'' and a competing weekly of 10 years, the ''Jefferson Times''. ''The Skyland Post'' got its name from an early slogan for mountainous Ashe County, "The Land of the Sky." ''The Skyland Post'' was purchased in the 1930s by Ed M. Anderson, whose newspaper empire included ''The Alleghany News'' in

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, the ''Spindale Sun'' in Spindale, the ''Transylvania Times'' in

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, and the ''Courier'' in Forest City. Stella W. Anderson was editor of ''The Skyland Post'' from her husband's death until the early-1980s when it was purchased by Patty Wheeler, and her husband, Al. In October 1988, ''The Skyland Post'' merged with the ''Jefferson Times'', which had been competing with the ''Post'' since August 1978. The paper was formerly owned by

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, which was acquired by

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in 2007. In 2012, Versa Capital Management merged Heartland Publications,

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, the former Freedom papers it had acquired, and

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into a new company,

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. Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017. Later in 2017, Champion Media sold its Mount Airy area newspapers to

. The newspaper is now called ''The Ashe Post & Times'' after ''The Jefferson Post'' and ''Ashe Mountain Times'' merged on December 1, 2017.

References

External links

''Jefferson Post''

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