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The Morgantown Weekly Post


1864

The Morgantown Weekly Post was established by Henry M. Morgan and Nimrod Nelson Hoffman

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1876

The New Dominion was established by Julian Fleming and William Jacos

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1878

Herbert Chester Greer was born

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1880

Agnes Reeves Greer was born

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Sep 07, 1897

The Daily New Dominion first appeared becoming Morgantown's first daily newspaper

1897

John Brooks Cottle was born

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1899

A daily edition Morgantown Evening Post began publication

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1904

The daily edition Morgantown Evening Post stopped publication

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1906

The Morgantown News merged with the New Dominion to form the New Dominion-News

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1908

The Morgantown Weekly Post and the Morgantown Chronicle merged

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1909

The Morgantown Republican merged with the New Dominion-News

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1911

The name of the Morgantown newspaper was changed to Weekly New Dominion

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1918

The Morgantown Post-Chronicle was renamed the Morgantown Post

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1923

Herbert Chester became publisher of the Morgantown Post

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1930

The New Dominion and Morgantown Post began sharing plant facilities

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1935

Walter L. "Bill" Hart became editor of the Dominion-News

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1948

Herbert Chester Greer died

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Oct 31, 1965

The first Morgantown Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Dominion-Post, appeared

1966

Bill Hart retired as editor of the Dominion News

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1967

John Brooks Cottle died

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1968

The Morgantown Post and Dominion-News moved into a new building

1972

Agnes Reeves Greer died

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1976

The Morgantown Dominion Post began publishing once a day

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1987

David A. Raese became publisher of the Dominion Post

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2004

Circulation of the Dominion Post was 20,454 on weekdays and 24,192 on Sundays

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