| Show YOUNG PAPERS THAT ACTUALLY ARE OLD longest period under one publisher in the paperhistory Which indeed it was LEWISTONnew newspaper the Cache Valley Citizen came to Lewiston on October 20 1962 when Wayne Bell and Walter Ross of the Preston Citizen producedfirst edition Renamed the Cache Citizen it was moved October 26 1972 to Smithfield marking that communityfirst newspaper since publications descended from the Smithfield Sentinel had closed their doors in 1948 The original Sentinel had begun December 13 1907 under John Harry Swiss native whopreviously worked for or published papers in Logan and in Rexburg and Rigby Idaho Acquired by his stepson Erwin Dowdel it was renamed The North Cache News with the appendage combined with the Smithfield Sentinel on April 1935 By 1944 the Smithfield connotation was dropped and in 1945 Dowdel sold the paper to Gilbert McDowell and Clifton Hendricksen McDowell became sole owner of the News as well as the South Cache Courier and both stopped publication in 1948 LOGAN The Cache Citizen which had moved from Lewiston to Smithfield in 1972 shifted location again six years to the day later on October 26 1978 It became laboratory for journalism students when its publishers turned it over to Utah State University on January 23 1985 Journalism faculty members supervised the publication until July 1993 when William Mulvay longtime publisher of the Hilltop Times at Hill Air Force Base purchased it He in turn sold it to the present-day publishers Kathy Heninger and Robert Kinder on November 1994 In August 1995 Utah State University ceased its practice of using the publication astraining ground for future print journalists Logan has for 93 years been the home ofrespected 89 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
