The Emmons County Record is a weekly newspaper based in Linton, North Dakota.[1]

Emmons County Record
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatPrint and Digital Newspaper
Owner(s)Leah Burke
PublisherLeah Burke
EditorLeah Burke
FoundedJune 10, 1884
HeadquartersEmmons County, North Dakota, USA
Circulation4,000
Websiteecrecord.com

It has been published continuously since the late 1800s, originally by D.R. Streeter.[2] In the late 1980s, while under the ownership of Cecil D. Jahraus, who was also the paper's editor and publisher, the Emmons County Record became the largest weekly newspaper in the state of North Dakota by circulation. Read by over 4,000 families weekly, the newspaper had a circulation permeating all 50 U.S. states and three foreign countries. Its present owner is the Burke family.

References edit

  1. ^ "About Us". ecrecord.com. Emmons County Record. 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  2. ^ Peter G. Beidler (17 October 2013). Murdering Indians: A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves. McFarland. pp. 197–. ISBN 978-1-4766-1427-4.