Clay County Progress
The Clay County Progress newspaper office in downtown Hayesville, N.C.
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherBecky Long
EditorBecky Long
FoundedNovember 1951
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersHayesville N.C.
Circulation4,600
OCLC number31885516
Websiteclaycountyprogress.com

Clay County Progress is a weekly newspaper based in Clay County, North Carolina, covering Clay and Cherokee counties in North Carolina and Towns County, Georgia.[1]

History

The Clay County Progress was preceded by the Clay County News, which launched Sep. 17, 1926, and was published by L.F. Cross through 1938.[2] The Clay County Progress began printing in November 1951 with J.K. Hutchings as its publisher. [3] The Cherokee Scout in nearby Murphy, North Carolina, printed a combined Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress edition between 1961 and 1980.[4] The Progress has been printed on the Scout's press since at least 1964.[5] The newspaper's website, ClayCountyProgress.com, launched by February 2002.[6]

Between 1987 and January 2012, the Progress faced competition from weekly newspaper The Smoky Mountain Sentinel, which was also based in Hayesville. The Sentinel had a circulation of 4,000 when it shut down due to the publisher falling ill.[7][8] Since it closed, the Progress has been the only newspaper in Clay County.

The Progress has sponsored Clay County's annual Christmas parade since its inception in 1987.[9] The Progress began publishing "Reader's Choice" awards in 2022.[10]

In October 2023, the Clay County Progress moved its headquarters from the Clay County square downtown to Moore's Plaza on Business Highway 64. The paper's offices had previously been located at Moore's Plaza until 2003. The newspaper did not explain why it moved.[11]

Publishers

  1. J. K. Hutchings (1951–1952)
  2. Paul G. Cutright (1952–1953)
  3. Lucille Padgett (1953–1954)
  4. Gene Robinson (1954–1957)
  5. Denzle Whitehair (1957–1961)
  6. Cherokee Scout (1961–1980)[12]
  7. Becky Long (1992–present)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Clay County Progress". Clay County Progress. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Clay County News (Hayesville, N.C.)". DigitalNC Newspapers. DigitalNC. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  3. ↑ "About Clay County progress". Chronicling America – Historic American Newspapers. National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  4. ↑ "The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress (Murphy, N.C.) 1961-1980". Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  5. ↑ "Open House: Come see how your newspaper is made". Cherokee Scout. Murphy, N.C. 1964-10-22. p. 3A.
  6. ↑ "ClayCountyProgress.com". 2002-02-06. Archived from the original on 2003-02-12. Retrieved 2023-09-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ "Smoky Mountain Sentinel". mondotimes. Mondo Code LLC.
  8. ↑ "Twitter". 2012-01-17.
  9. ↑ Long, Becky (2023-12-07). "Santa's coming to town Saturday". Clay County Progress. Hayesville, NC: Community Newspapers, Inc. p. A1.
  10. ↑ "Archive issues". Special. Clay County Progress. 2022-09-29.
  11. ↑ "We're moving... but not very far". Clay County Progress. Hayesville, N.C.: Community Newspapers, Inc. 2023-09-21. p. A3.
  12. ↑ Padgett, Guy (1976). A History of Clay County, North Carolina. Clay County Bicentennial Committee.


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