Shawnee News-Star
The Shawnee News-Star began in this building at the corner of Main & Beard photo taken in the 1920s |
The "new" News-Star building at 215 N. Bell Street was built in the early 1930s and was renovated in 1966. |
News-Star editorial department. Photos taken
Oct 1, 1976, looking northeast from southwest.
The Shawnee Morning News building as it looks in 2007 |
Murals were added to the old Morning-News building when the owners of Suitable for Framing purchased the site. |
Shawnee had three daily newspapers in 1897. The
Quill, The Chief and The Herald.
The Shawnee Evening News came next. The Shawnee Herald merged with
the Shawnee
Evening News to become the News Herald. On July 1, 1920 the first
issue of the Shawnee
Morning News was delivered. Stauffer Publications purchased the
publication in June, 1929.
They built a new building on North Bell (pictured top right above)
next door to the Post Office.
The Shawnee Evening Star was launched in 1930.
The two newspapers merged in 1943
and became the Shawnee News-Star. The remodeled building held open
house May 8, 1966.
This information came from the Pottawatomie County History Book.