Smyrna-Clayton Sun Times in Delaware
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N 39° 18.015 W 075° 36.426
18S E 447652 N 4350272
This is the original 1854 headquarters location.
Waymark Code: WM3J86
Location: Delaware, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2008
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Continuing the oldest consecutively published newspaper in Delaware
Readers who aren’t familiar with the history of our community newspaper may wonder why the name changed from The Smyrna Times to Smyrna/Clayton Sun-Times.
Here’s how it happened:
The Hoffecker family which founded The Smyrna Times, owned the paper for 92 years until selling it to longtime employee W. Lester Smith in 1946.
Smith and then his sons, Kenneth and Carlton, owned and operated The Smyrna Times until 1986 when the paper was sold to Atlantic Publications.
In 1985, the Dover Post Company started a paper in the community called the Smyrna/Clayton Sun. For two years, the Sun competed with the Times until the Dover Post Company bought The Smyrna Times in 1987 from Atlantic Publishing.
The names of the papers were combined to form the Smyrna/Clayton Sun-Times, which proudly states each week on the front page: “Continuing the Smyrna Times, Delaware’s oldest consecutively published newspaper, established 1854.”
Area Served: Smyrna-Clayton Delaware
What is (later, was) its physical address?:
Commerce Street
Smyrna, DE Kent
19977
Does it now just provide an internet read?: Yes
Internet address: [Web Link]
Did you ever buy or subscribe to this paper?: I bought one here and there
Please provide a link referring to the newspaper's demise.: Not listed
If applicable, when was this publication's last edition?: Not listed
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