''The Herald-Standard'' is a daily newspaper in

Uniontown, Pennsylvania Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Pittsburgh and part of the Greater Pittsburgh Region. The population was 10,372 at the 2010 census, down from 12,422 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat and ...

, and it has a circulation of 30,000. The newspaper and the newspaper's website, Heraldstandard.com - Uniontown Newspapers, Inc., are owned by

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. The ''Herald-Standard'' newspaper traces its ancestry back to the Fayette Gazette and Union Advertiser which published its first edition on December 5, 1797. The media company was purchased in part by Stanley W. Calkins in the 1930s.

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Inc. owned five daily and one weekly newspaper in Pennsylvania, one daily newspaper in

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, one weekly newspaper in

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, two ABC affiliate television stations in Florida and one station in

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. Calkins sold ''The Herald-Standard'' to

in 2017. ''The Herald-Standard'' also owns the weekly ''Greene County Messenger''. Heraldstandard.com has nearly 185 employees and it currently reaches over 168,000 readers in its local and surrounding markets.

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''The Herald Standard''
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