The News-Examiner History
The News-Examiner, Thursday, April 2, 2014
By Patricia Talcott
The News Examiner as we call it today was originally started back on October 23, 1880. At that time it was called The Bear lake Democrat. It was known by this name until 1885 when it became the South Idaho Independent and was printed in Paris about 9 miles from Montpelier. In 1896 the name was changed to the Montpelier Examiner and moved to Montpelier.
This name was in use until 1902 when it was decided to ad the word "The" thus becoming The Montpelier Examiner. In 1920 The Montpelier Examiner started printing a daily paper called The Daily News. This only lasted until December 1922.
About this time the Bear Lake County News came into being and became competition for The Montpelier Examiner. This continued until 1937 when The Montpelier Examiner changed its name to The News Examiner and subsequently consolidated with the Bear Lake County News. Records indicate that the newspaper discontinued publishing in August of 1969. The only paper being published at that time was the Paris Post. When The News Examiner started publication again is unknown but continues to this day.