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The Logan Banner, originally named the Logan County Banner, is a newspaper in Logan, West Virginia. Circulation is limited to Logan County and surrounding areas.
The newspaper was founded in 1889, by Henry Clay Ragland, a veteran of the Confederate army, as a weekly paper. It became a Monday-Friday afternoon paper in 1935. It 1981 it adopted its current, unusual, schedule of publishing Tuesday-Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings.
Currently it is owned by Heartland Publications.[1]
Popular references
The Logan Banner appeared in several scenes of the 2012 hit TV miniseries titled Hatfields & McCoys starring Kevin Costner. The newspaper was known as the Logan County Banner at the time of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud, yet the TV program showed it incorrectly as the Logan Banner.