Postville Herald
The Postville Herald is a weekly, English-language newspaper based in Postville, Iowa. It is one of the official newspapers for Allamakee County and serves a four-county region that also includes Clayton, Winneshiek, and Fayette counties. The paper is printed on a 27-inch broadsheet and is owned by Mid America Publishing. The editor is Melissa R. Collum. The Herald began in 1892 and remains a long-standing part of the community.
Long ago, Postville didn’t have a regular newspaper; news spread by word of mouth and letters. The first weekly was the Postville Review, started in 1873 by F. M. McCormack. It changed hands and ended in 1921. The area also had the Iowa Volksblatt, a German paper founded in 1891 by Rev. J. Gass. It eventually published in English as the Postville Herald after changing ownership and leadership, with the English edition becoming standard in 1918.
A longtime figure in the paper’s history was Bert Tuttle, who served as editor for more than 55 years and helped bring the Ringling Brothers Circus to Postville in 1916. The Herald changed owners several times, including a period when it merged with the Postville Leader and was renamed the Postville Herald-Leader. In 2009, Meyer Information Technology bought the paper and restored the Postville Herald name. Mid America Publishing purchased the Herald in January 2015.
Today, the Herald covers Postville city government, Postville Community Schools, and news from Castalia and Frankville, as well as regional news from Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, and Winneshiek counties. Its address is 112 North Lawler Street, Postville, IA 52162 (PO Box 100). The paper has a circulation of 508, and the single-issue price is $1.00. The website is postvilleherald.com.
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