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The Williston Herald is a daily newspaper in Williston, North Dakota printed Monday through Friday, and Sunday. Its motto is Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Circulation
The Williston Herald has a 2012 daily subscription circulation of 4,093 that increases to 4,502 on Sundays. Its 2012 readership, which includes newsstand sales, is 12,279 daily and 13,506 on Sundays. The price of the paper is 50¢ daily and xx Sunday. The Paper covers northwest North Dakota and eastern Montana.

prev>>The Williston Herald also the home of the Plains Reporter, which is the weekly publication distributed throughout northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana.

History
The paper was founded in 1899 by _________.

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 * 1899: A group of citizens wanting to express their views on a local political controversy raised $600 to begin the new newspaper. The newspaper begins in a one-room shack on Second Street West with E.M. Crary at the helm. However, in less than a month the Herald was on its third publisher. Soon after things settle down and the newspaper begins to grow.
 * Oct. 14, 1930: The first daily paper was published on a single sheet printed on both sides.
 * 1935: The newspaper went to standard size.
 * 1938: Wire services were added to the daily paper.
 * 1942: The Williston Herald moves to its present location.
 * August 1961: Walter Wick becomes publisher and totally transforms the physical plant.
 * March 13, 1967: Switch from hot lead to offset printing provides a noticeable improvement in reproduction.
 * 1979: The weekly Williston Basin Oil Reporter begins publishing.
 * 1987: Wick Communications purchases the weekly Williston Plains Reporter from Bill Shemorry.
 * 1996: The Herald installs a pagination system with full color capabilities.

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 * The Herald won 4 First and 5 Second Place Awards from the Associated Press 2008 Dakotas APME Awards.
 * They also won 11 First, 1 Second, and 6 Third place awards from the 2008 NDNA Awards.