Sold: tiny daily in Kansas town that is likely the smallest in the U.S. with a daily newspaper - Entrepreneur Generations

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Council Grove, Kansas, has an estimated population of 2,060 and is likely the smallest town in the United States with a daily newspaper. It will see the Council Grove Republican, circulation 1,482, change hands July 1. the paper has been sold to David Parker of Enid, Okla.

Don McNeal at the Republican in the early
1950s; photo from Republican Facebook page

"Parker said there will be no changes at the newspaper in terms of staff, the paper design will remain the same and the newspaper will continue to be published daily," the Kansas Press Association reports. Parker will be searching for a new editor. The sale was announced by owner, Craig McNeal, president of Council Grove Publishing Co. Inc., whose family "has been involved in the daily operation the past 82 years."

"Council Grove was listed in the late 1900s as one of the four smallest cities in the United States, population-wise, to have a daily newspaper," KPA reports. "Today, it is the only one of the four newspapers still being published daily." The Republican has been published continuously since its first issue on Aug. 24, 1872. It became a daily in 1914.

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