History
The ''Appeal-Democrat'' formed from the 1926 merger of two earlier newspapers, the ''Marysville Appeal'' (founded in 1860) and the ''Marysville Evening Democrat'' (founded in 1884). R.C. Hoiles, who built the Freedom Communications newspaper chain around the Santa Ana, California, Santa Ana paper that became the Orange County Register, bought the ''Appeal-Democrat'' in 1946 and placed his son-in-law Robert C. Hardie in charge as its publisher. Hardie directed the paper for the next 55 years, as circulation rose from about 7,500 to more than 20,000. Even as residents and businesses gradually shifted west from Marysville to nearby Yuba City, California, Yuba City, Hardie kept the ''Appeal-Democrat'' in its longtime home, twice acquiring new headquarters there (in 1950 and 1986). In 2013, Freedom sold the ''Appeal-Democrat'' to Vista California, a subsidiary of Horizon Publications.Subsidiaries
The ''Appeal-Democrat'' also publishes the ''Colusa County Sun-Herald'', the ''Corning Observer'', and the ''Glenn County Transcript''.References
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