"Womack
Publishing Company completed the acquisition of The Surry-Sussex Dispatch, The
Dinwiddie Monitor, and The Prince George Journal on March 8. The newspapers
will continue to provide the local community news residents of the region have
come to expect for decades.
“We
are pleased that we were able to acquire three outstanding community newspapers
and continue the long tradition of public service they have provided their
communities,” said Womack Publishing Director of Operations Chad B. Harrison.
Based
in Chatham, VA. Womack Publishing is a family-owned company that publishes 18
community newspapers in Virginia and North Carolina. Womack Newspapers, Inc., based in Greensboro, publishes YES! Weekly, Creative Loafing (Charlotte, N.C.), and the Jamestown News, bringing the group total to 21.
Womack
Publishing also publishes telephone directories, monthly magazines, visitors’
guides, as well as various digital media.
The
Surry-Sussex Dispatch, The Dinwiddie Monitor and the Prince George Journal will
join Womack Publishing’s other newspapers in the region, including The
Independent-Messenger in Emporia, The Brunswick Times-Gazette in Lawrenceville
Va., The South Hill Enterprise, The Warren Record in Warrenton, N.C., The News
Progress in Chase City, Va. and The Lake Gaston Gazette-Observer in Littleton,
N.C.
Roger
Bell will serve as regional editor of all three publications and Michael
Campbell will serve as news editor, and digital media director for all three of
the new acquisitions.
Womack
Publishing Company’s other newspapers include The Star Tribune in Chatham, The
Altavista Journal, Smith Mountain Eagle in Moneta Va., The Times-Virginian in
Appomattox Va., The Union Star in Brookneal Va., The Caswell Messenger in
Yanceyville, N.C., Mebane Enterprise in Mebane, N.C., The News Of Orange County,
Va., in Hillsborough, N.C., and The Montgomery Herald in Troy, N.C."
- A Press Release
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