The ''Richmond Register'' is a three

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based in Richmond, Kentucky, and covering Madison County. It publishes Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The ''Register'' is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. In January 2006, the Kentucky Press Association named the ''Register'' best newspaper in the state in its circulation division, based on the number of awards won in the "Daily Class 1" division (for the smallest daily newspapers by circulation) of the KPA's 2005 Excellence In Kentucky Newspapers contest.The Richmond Register: About Us
accessed January 19, 2007.Kentucky Press Association 2006 Excellence In Kentucky Newspaper Awards, List of General Excellence winners
accessed June 9, 2007.

History

As the only surviving daily in Richmond, the ''Register'' is heir to a crowded field. ''The Globe Register'' debuted November 2, 1809, but lasted only a year before changing its name to ''The Luminary'', which in turn was sold and became ''The Farmer's Chronicle'' in 1822. In 1845, the name changed to ''The Whig Chronicle''; and in 1852 it became ''The Weekly Messenger'', the largest circulated newspaper in

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outside

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. The paper ended its run in 1862, presumably due to the onset of the

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. The story of today's ''Register'' began in 1917, when S.M. Saufley purchased two Richmond papers, ''The Climax'' and ''The Kentucky Register'', and founded ''The Richmond Daily Register''. The Saufley, Johnson and Challinor-Tureman families took turns as owners, publishers and general managers of the paper until 1970, when Frank Helderman Sr. bought it. His wife sold to

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in 1985, and Thomson yielded to American Publishing, part of

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, in 1995. The ''Register'' is now published by CNHI, which bought it in 1999.

References

External links

''Richmond Register'' WebsiteCNHI Website''The Climax''
(1887-1897) at

Chronicling America ''Chronicling America'' is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website. It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endo ...

''The Richmond Climax''
(1897-1914) at Chronicling America
''The Madisonian''
(1913-1914) at Chronicling America
''The Climax-Madisonian''
(1914-1917) at Chronicling America
''The Kentucky Register''
(1866-1917) at Chronicling America
''Richmond Daily Register''
(1917-1922) at Chronicling America Richmond Register Richmond Register Richmond, Kentucky {{Kentucky-newspaper-stub