The ''Red Wing Republican Eagle'' or ''Republican Eagle'' is an American, English language newspaper in

Red Wing, Minnesota Red Wing is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the upper Mississippi River. The population was 16,547 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Goodhue County. This ...

. The publisher is Neal Ronquist and the editor is Anne Jacobson. The ''Red Wing Republican Eagle'' publishes two days a week – Wednesday and Saturday – and has a weekend supplement has a circulation in excess of 20,000.

History

The first edition of the ''Red Wing Republican'' hit the streets on September 4, 1857. It was a four-page edition produced by Lucius F. Hubbard, who had arrived by steamboat with an ancient hand press just a few weeks before. The 21-year-old tinsmith from

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became the ninth governor of Minnesota 25 years later. The newspaper became the ''Daily Republican'' on October 12, 1885, and merged with the rival ''Daily Eagle'' in 1940. The ''Daily Republican Eagle's'' first edition came out November 25 of that year. The newspaper dropped "daily" from its flag in 1969. Forum Communications purchased the ''Republican Eagle'' in 2001. In late 2009, the paper switched from daily publication to twice weekly. In 2019, the ''Pierce County Herald'' merged into the ''Republican Eagle''. In 2020, the ''Republican Eagle'' was sold by Forum to O'Rourke Media Group.

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