''The News Sun'' is an American

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published in

Kendallville, Indiana Kendallville is a city in Wayne Township, Noble County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 9,862 at the 2010 census. History Kendallville was laid out in 1849. The city was named for Amos Kendall, 8th United States Postmaster Gene ...

. It is the flagship newspaper of

KPC Media Group KPC Media Group Inc. is an American privately owned printer and publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, based in Kendallville, Indiana. It was founded in 1911 as Kendallville Publishing Company Inc. by the owners of two competing newspapers in ...

. It covers the city of Kendallville and several nearby communities in

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counties.

History

Though it numbers its issues from August 1911 and celebrated 2011 as its 100th anniversary, ''The News Sun''—known as the ''Kendallville News-Sun'' before July 1984—can trace its history back to the mid-19th century, through the ''Daily News'' and ''Daily Sun'' newspapers that merged in 1911 and the succession of

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s that preceded them. ''The Daily Sun'' oldest predecessor was the weekly ''Noble County Journal'', founded ; it later became the ''Kendallville Standard''. The ''Weekly News'' began in 1877. By 1906 both had converted to dailies; in 1911 the two newspapers' publishers, O.E. Michaelis and George W. Baxter, established Kendallville Publishing Company Inc. and merged their papers. They established offices on North Main Street in Kendallville, in the same building where ''The News Sun'' and KPC Media Group remain headquartered today, more than 100 years later. Baxter and Michaelis sold the newspaper to Charles O. Merica in 1913; his wife Alice Merica inherited it in 1918 and remained publisher until her death on January 25, 1969, at age 103. She was the oldest newspaper publisher in the United States. Originally an afternoon newspaper printed six days per week, in 2000 ''The News Sun'' added a Sunday edition and on April 6, 2009, it converted to morning publication.

Sister papers

''The News Sun'' is one of three daily newspapers published by

; the other two, both of which cover adjoining counties, are ''

The Herald Republican ''The Herald Republican'' is an American daily newspaper published in Angola, Indiana. It is owned by KPC Media Group. It covers the city of Angola and all of Steuben County in the northeastern corner of Indiana. History Two competing weekly ne ...

'' and ''

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''. The company also owns multiple weekly publications in Noble County, DeKalb County, Allen County and Whitley County. Among those weekly publications is ''The Advance Leader'', which overlaps with ''The News Sun'' coverage in western Noble County. ''The Advance Leader'' was formed May 14, 1975, after KPC purchased and merged the ''Cromwell Advance'' of

Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...

(founded 1912) and the ''Ligonier Leader'' of Ligonier (1880).

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:News Sun KPC Media Group LaGrange County, Indiana Noble County, Indiana Newspapers published in Indiana Newspapers established in 1911 1911 establishments in Indiana