The Weekly Recorder
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The Weekly Recorder is a 120 year old weekly newspaper in Claysville, Pennsylvania, USA.
It has been printed every week except for one three month period in 1960's.[citation needed]
It was founded by a man named Irwin, who sold it in its first year to the Melvin family.[citation needed] George Melvin sold it in the 1960s, after briefly closing it, to Gene Shaw. Shaw ran the company till 1973, when he sold it to "Buck" and Betty Jones. They continued the newspaper until the sold in 1982 to Douglas Teagarden. Teagarden ran the paper until 2002 when he sold it Cody Knotts.
Till the last five years, the paper concentrated on the news of the McGuffey School District in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Recently it switched format and become an investigative tabloid concentrating on politics and crime.[citation needed]
It won an award from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in 2004 for its on-going coverage of the November 3, 2003 murders of Frederick Brilla and Martin Brahler, otherwise known as the Election Day Massacre.[citation needed]
