After 57 years, the Ripon Commonwealth Press and Express in
Ripon , Wisconsin ,
has new owners. Effective Jan. 1, the Lyke family sold the paper and shopper to
Delta Media Group, based in Kiel ,
Wisconsin . The company owns a
digital marketing agency and several papers.
Julie
Bergman of Grimes, McGovern & Associates represented the Lyke family in the
transaction.
Delta Media
Group is an affiliate of the O’Rourke Media Group, a family-owned,
Chicago-based company that owns and operates community papers, associated
digital products and a marketing agency in northwestern Vermont .
Joe Mathes,
general manager and a partner at Delta Media Group, will assume added
responsibility for managing the Ripon business.
The Lyke
family also owned Ripon Printers, which was acquired in a separate transaction
by Walsworth, a family-owned commercial printer and publisher of yearbooks
based in Marceline , Missouri .
Between the
two acquisitions, nearly all existing employees are expected to be retained,
according to a release.
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