Ralph D. Goldsmith

Ralph D. Goldsmith, a well-known newspaperman in his region of Wisconsin, died December 23, 2005. The former Boscobel Dial publisher/editor retired in 1992 after a career that spanned over 70 years. His career began when he went to work for the Ladysmith News in 1932. From the beginning, his eye was always on the newsroom. […]

Philip J. Egan

Philip J. Egan was editor and publisher of the Tribune Keystone in Elroy from 1951 to 1972, when he and his wife, Ruth, moved to Florida, where he owned the Delray Press printing shop and later retired.

Paul Lange

Paul Lange was a daily presence in The Chetek Alert office. From his days as a printer-in-a-pinch to a long stint as half-owner and publisher with Ida Mason and, later, her daughter Melodee Eckerman, Lange helped get out more than 1,800 issues of The Alert. A veteran, Lange was an active member of community and […]

Richard P. Prideaux

Richard P. Prideaux (1920-2005) is former publisher of the Weyauwega Chronicle. Prideaux died July 29, 2005, in Elkhorn. He was 84. Prideaux was born Sept. 23, 1920, in Ripon. On April 18, 1953, in Elgin, Ill., he married his wife, Mildred C. Christian, and they lived in Weyauwega until moving to Lake Geneva in 2003. […]

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