The ''Mt. Vernon Register-News'' was a newspaper that served
Mount Vernon, Illinois
Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,600 at the 2020 census. Mount Vernon is the principal city of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all o ...
. The newspaper's marketing slogan was "We Are Mt. Vernon."
The ''Register-News'' traced its origin back to 1884, when the ''Mt. Vernon Daily Register'' was launched. The ''Mt. Vernon Daily News'' was founded in 1891, and the two papers merged in 1920 to create the ''Register-News'', which published six days a week until cost-saving measures were employed in 2017 that reduced the newspaper to printing just three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Former owner
Thomson Thomson may refer to:
Names
* Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin
* Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson
Businesses and organizations
* SGS-Thomson Mic ...
sold the paper to
Hollinger in 1996. CNHI acquired the paper in 2000. The last edition of the ''Register-News'' was printed on February 6, 2018; the following day, CNHI announced the closure of both the ''Register-News'' (due to the “challenging market and economic conditions of Mount Vernon”) and the ''
McLeansboro Times-Leader''.
References
External links
*
CNHI Website
Newspapers published in Illinois
Jefferson County, Illinois
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