''The Yadkin Ripple'' is a weekly

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based in

Yadkinville, North Carolina Yadkinville is a town in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,995 at the 2020 census. Located in the Piedmont Triad, it is the county seat and largest city of Yadkin County. History The area was chosen as the county s ...

. It was first published in

East Bend, North Carolina East Bend is a town in northeastern Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. The population is 634 at the 2020 census. It is a Piedmont Triad community. Geography East Bend is located at (36.217471, -80.509064). According to the United Sta ...

, on October 18, 1892. ''The Ripple'', published on Thursdays, was purchased in June 2007 by

Heartland Publications Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...

. It shares a publisher and its production staff with ''The Tribune'' in Elkin and is printed at ''

The Mount Airy News ''The Mount Airy News'' is a six-day-a-week newspaper published in Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States. It was established in 1880. The ''News'' has a circulation of 9,263 according to The Park Library's list of North Carolina newspapers. ...

.''

History

Mattie Johnson Hall, who used the

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"Meddlesome Mattie," started ''The Ripple'' in East Bend in 1892. She named it after watching a ripple over a dam on the

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. In 1896, the paper was sold to

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Elisha Stanford who moved the offices to Yadkinville. She in-turn sold The Ripple to Samuel Carter (S. Carter) Williams who in 1909 sold the publication to Mr Rutledge. In 1909, it was sold to W.E. Rutledge Sr. (November 13, 1887 – April 2, 1966). Rutledge was owner,

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and

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of the paper until his death in 1966. The paper remained in the Rutledge family until 2002 when it was sold to

Mid-South Management Company Inc. Mid-South Management Company Inc. was a family-owned, Spartanburg, South Carolina-based publisher of small to medium market newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The company was started in 1948 ...

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. ''The Yadkin Enterprise'', another weekly Yadkinville newspaper, then merged into ''The Ripple''. In June 2007, ''The Ripple'' and its sister publications were sold to

LLC of Connecticut. A week after the sale, Rebel Good, publisher of ''The Ripple'' and ''The Tribune'', left his position along with a number of senior staffers. Good and former Mount Airy News publisher Michael Milligan plan to launch a newspaper to compete with ''The Mount Airy News''. In 2012 Versa Capital Management merged Heartland Publications,

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, the former

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papers it had acquired, and

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into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, Ohi ...

. Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017. Later in 2017, Champion Media sold its Mount Airy area newspapers to

Adams Publishing Group Adams Publishing Group LLC (APG) is a company that provides publishing services, including newspapers, periodicals, and website publishing in the United States. Its corporate headquarters is located in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Mark Adams, the son ...

.Adams Publishing Group acquires Mount Airy Group from Champion Media
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References

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