Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Community Newspaper Holdings |
Founded | 1961 |
Headquarters | 213 South Walker Street, Princeton, WV |
Circulation | 1,390 (as of 2016)[1] |
Website | ptonline |
The Princeton Times is a newspaper serving Princeton, West Virginia, and surrounding Mercer County.[2] Published weekly on Fridays,[3] it has a circulation of 1,390 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings.[4]
The paper was launched as a daily in July 1961 with the help of Mercer County residents, 300 of whom bought stock in the new venture.[5] Howard Imboden was set up as publisher. The paper was soon sold to southern firm holding over 30 local newspapers, citing need for more capital investment.[5] It dropped its Sunday edition in 1963 and shifted to weekly publication in August 1964.[6]
In August 2018, the paper took third place for its division in General Excellence in the West Virginia Press Association's Better Newspaper Awards.[7]