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Hedde converted the Independent from a weekly to a daily in 1884; [9] in 1885, he changed its name to the Grand Island Daily Independent. [12] In 1900, the octogenarian Hedde's health was failing, prompting him to turn the newspaper over to a group of Grand Island businessmen, [8] who formed the Independent Publishing Company. A.
grand-island.com. Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 53,131 at the 2020 census, making it the 4th most populous city in Nebraska. [4] Grand Island is the principal city of the Grand Island metropolitan area, which consists of Hall, Merrick, Howard and Hamilton counties.
The newspaper was the world's last to print both daily morning and afternoon editions, a practice it ended in March 2016. [3]The World-Herald was the largest employee-owned newspaper in the United States from 1979 until 2011: Omaha construction magnate Peter Kiewit bought the newspaper and its television station, the local ABC affiliate, in 1962 for $40.1 million from Omaha-based World ...
2Time from first tornado to last tornado. The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, also known as The Night of the Twisters, was a tornado outbreak that produced a series of destructive tornadoes that affected the city of Grand Island, Nebraska, on Tuesday, June 3, 1980. Seven tornadoes touched down in or near the city that night, killing five ...
The Grand Island Independent is the city's primary newspaper, published daily. [1] Other newspapers published in Grand Island include: Buenos Dias Nebraska, Spanish language paper, twice monthly [2] West Nebraska Register, published by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island, twice monthly [3]
Front page of the June 2022 issue of the Viking Saga. The Viking Saga is the student newspaper of Northwest High School in Grand Island, Nebraska, in the United States.In April 2022, the staff of the paper was told that transgender writers should not use their preferred names on bylines and instead must use the names they had been given at birth.
The Daily Nonpareil is southwest Iowa's largest newspaper. [2] It was founded on May 2, 1857. [3]The paper was acquired in 2011 by Berkshire Hathaway, when it bought the paper's then parent, the Omaha World-Herald and its other subsidiary newspapers in Kearney, Grand Island, York, North Platte, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. [4]
Iowa Farmer Today is a weekly newspaper, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that covers Iowa for crop and livestock farmers in the Midwest. Iowa Farmer Today was launched September 8, 1984, [1] at a time when the tremors of the farm crisis were being felt throughout the Midwest. Publisher Steve DeWitt held discussions for several months with the ...