The St. Marys Oracle is a newspaper serving St Marys, West Virginia, and surrounding Pleasants County.[2] Published weekly, it has a circulation of 2,006 and is owned by West Central Publishing Inc.[3]
The paper was established in 1877 as the Democratic weekly The Observer by M. P. Prettyman,[4] who bought the printing plant of the failed West Virginia Methodist Protestant.[5] Prettyman, a schoolteacher who had developed an interest in typography, taught himself over a series of weekends to set type and run the press.[5] He would later change the paper's to The Oracle in 1881.[6]
The paper passed through a number of owner's before becoming R. A. Gallagher purchased it and changed the name to the St Marys Oracle in 1885.[7] For a period of 15 years Gallagher ran it, selling a half interest to Robert L. Pemberton in 1902 who managed it from that time forward, buying the full interest in 1909.[5]
In 2003, the paper sued the Pleasants school board, claiming it had violated the state's Sunshine Laws by not providing adequate details in a meeting where layoffs were proposed.[9] The two parties were able to resolve the lawsuit out of court, with the paper agreeing that the omission had been unintentional.[10]
^2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory(PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
^"Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
^2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory(PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
^"About The Observer". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ abcPemberton, Robert L. (1929). A History of Pleasants County, West Virginia. Clearfield. p. 104. ISBN9780806351599.
^"About The oracle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^"About The St. Marys oracle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^Harris, John T. (1920). West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register. Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Company. p. 799.
^Associated Press (10 May 2003). "Papers sue Pleasants school board". The Charleston Gazette.
^Associated Press (29 August 2003). "Newspapers, Pleasants board to resolve lawsuit". The Associated Press State & Local Wire.
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