The Cook County News-Herald, the newspaper that has been providing local news from Grand Marais for 129 years, has been sold.
The sale was confirmed by two reliable sources, News-Herald Editor Brian Larsen and commercial realtor Steve Bragg. However, neither party is willing to release the buyer's name at this time.
Wood, who owned a chain of 48 newspapers across Minnesota, sold the paper to Christopher Murphy in 1893. Murphy renamed the paper, the Cook County Herald. In 1906, John A. Blackwell started a competing newspaper, the Grand Marais News. Having two newspapers was short-lived. In 1907, Murphy sold his paper to Blackwell and the name became the Cook County News-Herald.
The News-Herald went through several ownership transitions throughout the years. Owners were Matt Johnson, Ade Toftey and Ben Scott, Frank Raff, Richard and Betty Base, Ken and Phyllis Kettunen, Jack and Patti Becklund, and Steve Fernlund.
Ade Toftey had one of the longest tenures at the News-Herald, owning it from 1936 to 1971.
In 1999, Steve Fernlund sold the News-Herald to a newspaper conglomerate Murphy-McGinnis Media, which led to Ken Kettunen's son, Hal, establishing the Cook County Star.
Murphy-McGinnis Media restructured and sold the News-Herald to another conglomerate, Superior Publishing.
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