The Rochester Sentinel (Indiana) has been purchased by
Paxton Media Group from owner and Publisher Sarah O. Wilson, according to John
Thomas Cribb of merger and acquisitions firm Cribb, Greene & Cope, who
represented the Wilson
family in the sale. The sale was effective May 1. A price was not disclosed.
Wilson and her husband, Sentinel Editor W.S.
Wilson, came to the Sentinel in 1982. Neither will remain with the
company.
Sarah
Wilson's father, the late Jack K.
Overmyer, began working at The Sentinel while in high school, bought the
paper in 1976 and passed ownership to her upon his death in 2010.
Paxton
Media is a family-owned company headquartered in Paducah , Kentucky .
It publishes daily and weekly newspapers in more than 50 communities in the Midwest and South.
“This
business combination provides the financial security needed to assure the
Sentinel will continue to serve its community long into the future,” said David
Paxton of Paxton Media Group.
Bill Hackney has been named publisher of The
Sentinel, according to David Holgate, president of Paxton's Indiana Michigan
Group.
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