FAIRMONT —
There are many times when I’m speaking with a source or a visitor that they refer to this newspaper as The Fairmont Times.
Old habits die hard, so I’m not one to correct them. The next opportunity I have in the conversation, I make sure to say Times West Virginian. For those who may not know the history of our paper, we have two predecessors. There was the morning Fairmont Times, the city’s Democrat newspaper. Then there was the afternoon West Virginian, the Republican paper. I don’t know the history of circulation and importance of the two papers, since they were around long before my time, but I always kind of find it humorous that no one slips and calls us The West Virginian.
I had a good laugh one afternoon when I got an email from a government source and several people were copied on it. As habit, I scanned the others who received the email at the same time and noticed that I had been plugged into his address book as “Misty (Fairmont Times) Poe.” I made some silly joke about how it hadn’t been the Fairmont Times since before I was born and pretended offense that my name wasn’t just synonymous with the Times West Virginian.
As with most newspapers that come from the stock of more than one predecessor — three in our region — our masthead bears a name that seems strange. Some have hyphens — Clarksburg’s Exponent-Telegram, for example. Some don’t, like The Dominion Post. Employees who had been here for years have told me there was a very long meeting one day to decide whether the Times West Virginian should remove the hyphen it had used for a few decades — the hyphen symbolic of the merger between the morning and afternoon papers.
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Mannington bridge named in honor of ‘Doc’ and Florence Elliott
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Rivesville woman charged with felony forgery and uttering
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