McCook Gazette welcomes the Sheridan Sentinel

The McCook Gazette is pleased to welcome a new print customer this week, The Sheridan Sentinel of Hoxie, Kansas.

Last month, Publisher Viktorija Briggs, office manager Rachel Farber and Lori Cressler, who handles advertising, visited McCook and toured the Gazette’s production plant. During the visit, they saw the press in action and met with several of the Gazette’s 24 employees.

With the addition of the Sentinel, the Gazette now prints eight weekly newspapers, along with several free-standing advertising inserts, school newspapers and other specialty publications.

The Sheridan Sentinel is Sheridan County’s largest and oldest newspaper, offering broad reach and long-standing community presence for advertisers. Located in Hoxie, the newspaper traces its roots to 1884, when it was founded as the Kenneth Sentinel. After the towns of Kenneth and Hoxie merged, the paper became The Hoxie Sentinel, a name it carried for more than a century.

In November 2016, the newspaper moved just up Main Street from its longtime home to a new building. The expanded space made room for the Kenoxie Archives & Museum, which houses the newspaper’s complete archives along with a “newspaper through the ages” exhibit for visitors, school groups, and tourists.

As a former employee of the Hoxie Sentinel, Briggs purchased the newspaper and later changed its name to The Sheridan Sentinel to better reflect and include all of Sheridan County’s towns and residents. The Sentinel’s website notes proudly that “no other company in Sheridan County offers the same level of quality.”

At the McCook Gazette, we are proud to be part of that quality process and look forward to a strong working relationship. The partnership reflects the Gazette’s growing role as a regional printing hub for community newspapers, built on modern equipment, experienced staff and a shared understanding of what local journalism requires to endure.

Please join us in welcoming The Sheridan Sentinel.