This page will  spotlight items in the Newsletter.  Each issue of our quarterly newsletter has a
spotlight article on an organization, item, building or business.  We also  feature some of the early pioneers and citizens of Goodhue.   Please check these spotlights periodically as they will change, but to receive more frequent spotlights,  please become a member as they are published in the Membership Newsletter. 

                                                            
                                                             




 GOODHUE
NEWSPAPER 

The picture to the left is the printing press that was used in Goodhue to print the local paper.  It is now on display at the Goodhue Area Historical Society Museum.  
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• The first Goodhue paper, The Goodhue Times, was printed in 1895. 
• That was the year of the Goodhue fire, and the second issue
• was not printed until 1896.  
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• From 1896 - 1925 the newspaper was owned by Dwight Pierce, Goodhue's first newspaper editor calling the paper the Goodhue Enterprise. 
• It was a well- received newspaper with a circulation of 700 and its influence was exerted in favor of everything that tends toward the civic, moral, and industrial betterment of the village. Mr. Pierce was married, and his wife Florence became the first women mayor of Goodhue.
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• Lloyd Cook became the next editor of the newspaper from 1925-1963 leasing to various editors from 1930-1939 when he again became the editor.  Mr. Cook changed the name of the newspaper to Goodhue County Tribune within a year after purchasing the paper.  While editor he promoted an unsuccessful campaign to have the county courthouse located in Goodhue. During World War ll every service person from Goodhue received their hometown paper free from Mr. Cook.
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• Earl and Florence (Tootie) Campbell owned and operated the paper from May 1984 - 1988.  The Campbell's had fourteen years of experience in country weeklies and Twin City Daily papers.  The Campbell's updated the equipment to a more modern press. The paper was now called the Goodhue Tribune.  The Campbell's compiled a pictorial history of Goodhue for Goodhue's seventy-fifth anniversary.  It was the first comprehensive history of the city that had been written.  It is still enjoyed by the residents of Goodhue today.  


• In 1988 the newspaper was sold to Grimsrud publishing.  The current newspaper is printed in Zumbrota and called the News Record and reports on the news of Zumbrota, Pine Island and Goodhue.
  
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• We hope that you enjoyed a look at the history
  
• of the newspaper business in Goodhue.   
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