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What is now the Lahontan Valley News and Fallon Eagle Standard was born on Dec. 12, 1903, founded by Bert E. Hanson as the Churchill Standard. The paper began as a weekly.
In 1907, a second paper, the Fallon Eagle, was started. The two papers merged in 1958 and became the Fallon Eagle-Standard. Pat Stevenson and several former Eagle-Standard employees founded the Lahontan Valley News in the 1960s.
After several changes of ownership, Dr. C.P. McCuskey, a Fallon dentist, inherited the Lahontan Valley News. McCuskey sold the paper to David C. Henley in 1977. Henley bought out the Eagle-Standard in 1983 and converted the combined paper to a frequency of five days a week. In 1993, he added a sixth day.
The Standard was founded when Nevada had a population of barely 50,000. Nevada’s governor was John Sparks. Its lieutenant governor was Lemuel Allen, a Fallon rancher. William M. Stewart and Francis G. Newlands were the state’s U.S. senators and Clarence Van Duzer its lone congressman.
The first issue of the Standard was a four-page publication on sheets of paper approximately 12 by 19 inches in size. Each carried five columns of type and pages one, two and three carried advertisements.
The advent of the Standard was noted in other newspapers in the state.
In the past 100 years, things have changed quite a bit at this newspaper.
The newspaper is no longer a weekly, but a daily. LVN moved its offices from a wooden structure near the corner of Maine and Center streets to a 7,500 square-foot modem building at 562 N. Maine St. in 1990.
The population of Fallon and Churchill County, which was about 600 in 1903, is approximately 29,000 today.
Swift Newspapers purchased the paper on Dec. 15, 2003. In 2007, the newspaper changed its publication days from Tuesday through Sunday.
The paper serves the Lahontan Valley, which stretches in the east with Fallon, and Churchill County to the west to include the northern Lyon County and Fernley,
During the 2006-2007 contest year of the Nevada Press Association, the LVN win 22 awards and also had five award winners from the National Newspaper Association including a pair of first-place wins.
In 1907, a second paper, the Fallon Eagle, was started. The two papers merged in 1958 and became the Fallon Eagle-Standard. Pat Stevenson and several former Eagle-Standard employees founded the Lahontan Valley News in the 1960s.
After several changes of ownership, Dr. C.P. McCuskey, a Fallon dentist, inherited the Lahontan Valley News. McCuskey sold the paper to David C. Henley in 1977. Henley bought out the Eagle-Standard in 1983 and converted the combined paper to a frequency of five days a week. In 1993, he added a sixth day.
The Standard was founded when Nevada had a population of barely 50,000. Nevada’s governor was John Sparks. Its lieutenant governor was Lemuel Allen, a Fallon rancher. William M. Stewart and Francis G. Newlands were the state’s U.S. senators and Clarence Van Duzer its lone congressman.
The first issue of the Standard was a four-page publication on sheets of paper approximately 12 by 19 inches in size. Each carried five columns of type and pages one, two and three carried advertisements.
The advent of the Standard was noted in other newspapers in the state.
In the past 100 years, things have changed quite a bit at this newspaper.
The newspaper is no longer a weekly, but a daily. LVN moved its offices from a wooden structure near the corner of Maine and Center streets to a 7,500 square-foot modem building at 562 N. Maine St. in 1990.
The population of Fallon and Churchill County, which was about 600 in 1903, is approximately 29,000 today.
Swift Newspapers purchased the paper on Dec. 15, 2003. In 2007, the newspaper changed its publication days from Tuesday through Sunday.
The paper serves the Lahontan Valley, which stretches in the east with Fallon, and Churchill County to the west to include the northern Lyon County and Fernley,
During the 2006-2007 contest year of the Nevada Press Association, the LVN win 22 awards and also had five award winners from the National Newspaper Association including a pair of first-place wins.
