{"id":36,"date":"2011-06-30T14:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:07:59","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Brief History of\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Leader Tribune<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><em>The Leader Tribune<\/em>\u00a0is one of Fort Valley\u2019s oldest businesses. Established in 1888, the newspaper has been serving the citizens of Fort Valley, Byron, Powersville, and Peach County as the official county organ and chief news source for over 120 years. The Leader Tribune came into being through the merger of two newspapers: the\u00a0<em>Fort Valley Leader<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Fort Valley Enterprise<\/em>.\u00a0 The\u00a0<em>Fort Valley<\/em>\u00a0<em>Leader<\/em>\u00a0was owned by Thomas Virgil Fagan.\u00a0 Samuel \u201cBully\u201d Austin was its editor. The\u00a0<em>Fort Valley<\/em>\u00a0<em>Enterprise<\/em>\u00a0was co-owned and co-edited by Will Kersh and Will Wynne.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">The principal owners since the 1890s have been Thomas J. Shephard (1898 to 1925), John H. Jones (1925-1952), Dan Grahl (1952-1974), Wilton Walton (1975- 1984), Bob Tribble (1984 to 2005), Co-owners Daniel K. Evans and Bob Tribble ( 2005 to 2006), Daniel K. Evans (2006 to 2010), and Tribble Publications from April 1, 2010 to present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">The chief administrative officers of Tribble Publications are Bob Tribble-President and Mitch Tribble-Vice President.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">The Fort Valley office staff comprises Judy Robinson-General Manager and Publisher, Renee Goggins-Office Manager, Donna Trussell-Business Manager, Victor Kulkosky-News Editor, Emily Griffin-Advertising Manager, A. W. Dorsey-Sports Correspondent, and Tara Mercer-Circulation Manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Since its inception,<em>\u00a0The Leader Tribune<\/em>\u00a0has relocated several times in Fort Valley: from (1) Main Street to (2) Vineville Street to (3) West Main Street and (4) is presently located at 109 Anderson Avenue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><em>The Leader Tribune<\/em>\u00a0is a community-oriented newspaper that is published weekly by Peach Publishing Company, Inc.\u00a0 Its staff seeks to produce a quality newspaper that provides accurate, timely, and unbiased news for all the citizens of Peach and adjoining counties.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief History of\u00a0The Leader Tribune The Leader Tribune\u00a0is one of Fort Valley\u2019s oldest businesses. Established in 1888, the newspaper has been serving the citizens of Fort Valley, Byron, Powersville, and Peach County as the official county organ and chief news &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/?page_id=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theleadertribune.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}