''The Record-Courier'' is a twice-a-week newspaper in
Gardnerville, Nevada
Gardnerville is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, adjacent to the county seat of Minden. The population was 6,211 at the time of th2020 Census
U.S. Route 395 runs through the center of Gardnerville. State Route 207, known as K ...
. It has its origins in ''The Carson Valley News'' founded in
Genoa, Nevada
Genoa is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. Founded in 1851, it was the first settlement in what became the Nevada Territory. It is situated within Carson River Valley and is approximately south of Reno. The pop ...
, in 1875 by A. C. Pratt. The newspaper was renamed ''The Genoa Courier'' in 1880 and merged that year with ''The Genoa Journal''. It merged with ''The Gardnerville Record'' in 1904 to form ''The Record-Courier''. It is one of the oldest continuously published nameplates in Nevada. It was purchased by
Swift Communications in 1988. ''The Record-Courier'' covers
Carson Valley, located in
Douglas County,
Alpine County (California), and
Mono County (California) in the eastern
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
. An original woodcut of the
Carson Range as it rises above Carson Valley produced by syndicated cartoonist Lew Hymers in 1928 appears in the banner. On August 1, 2019, ''The Record-Courier'' along with the ''Nevada Appeal'', the ''Lahontan Valley News'', and the ''Northern Nevada Business View'' were sold to Pacific Publishing. The papers reformed under the Nevada News Group.
References
External links
''Record-Courier'' site
Newspapers published in Nevada
Newspapers established in 1875
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