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| website = orangeleader.com}}The Orange Leader is a morning newspaper published Wednesdays and Saturdays in Orange, Texas, covering Orange County. It is owned by Boone Newspapers.

History

After buying two local weeklies{{efn|The Orange-based Opportunity Valley News and Port Arthur-based Community Post.}} in the region in 1980,WEB, From the Creaux’s Nest, July 7, 2015, July 12, 2019, The Record Newspapers,therecordlive.com/2015/07/07/from-the-creauxs-nest-180/, Cox Enterprises bought the daily Leader in 1985 from owner/publisher James B. Quigley, who had led the paper since 1937. Harry G. Wood, the editor of the nearby Cox newspaper The Port Arthur News, was installed as publisher at that time.NEWS, BU graduate to take job as publisher, Waco Tribune-Herald, March 3, 1985, Cox to sell Orange and Port Arthur newspapersIn 1991, Cox sold the Leader and the Port Arthur newspaper to American Publishing Company, which in turn dealt them to Community Newspaper Holdings in 1999.PAnews.com: Port Arthur News history, accessed January 20, 2007. After cutting publication from seven days to three (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) in 2011WEB, The Orange Leader will cut print edition to three days, Joanne Liou, Beaumont Enterprise, August 2, 2011, February 7, 2015,www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/The-Orange-Leader-will-cut-print-edition-to-three-1700406.php, and later to two days, the pair was sold to Boone Newspapers Inc. in 2014.WEB, Boone Affiliates Acquire Texas Newspapers, November 5, 2014, February 7, 2015, Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, Editor & Publisher,www.editorandpublisher.com/Business/Article/Boone-Affiliates-Acquire-Texas-Newspapers,

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External links

• The Orange Leader Website

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