Thibodaux
Thibodaux ( ) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. Thibodaux is a principal city ...
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Louisiana
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United States
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. It covers
Lafourche
Lafourche Parish (french: Paroisse de la Fourche) is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Thibodaux. The parish was formed in 1807. It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, whi ...
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Assumption
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, the west bank of St. James and the northern part of
Terrebonne
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;Canada
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parishes.
It began publishing in 1889 as the weekly ''Lafourche Comet''. It is the only paper currently published in America named "Comet". Its publisher, a
Democrat
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, selected the name "Comet" because the rival
Republican
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newspaper was named ''the Star''. The publisher reasoned that a comet is brighter than a star.
''The Daily Comet'' was purchased by
Halifax Media Group
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from
The New York Times Company
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History
The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones in New York City. T ...
on January 6, 2012. In 2015, Halifax was acquired by