The Maryville Forum

[3] The newspaper traces its roots to the Nodaway Democrat published in 1869 by future Missouri Governor Albert P. Morehouse.

In the early 1900s William C. Van Cleve, publisher of the Moberly Monitor-Index, merged the Democrat with the Nodaway Forum which had been established on October 24, 1901 by future Congressman Charles J. Colden and the paper was called the Maryville Democrat-Forum.

Cobb had worked at the Forum for Gatehouse but left 2012 to form a competing newspaper to keep local advertising in the community rather than going to the corporate parent.

[8][9] In June 2021 Ken and Traci Garner purchased the paper from Cobb keeping it locally owned.

On August 31, 2011, the wall of the original North Main building (which had been taken over by a bar called The Pub) collapsed.