The Red Wing Republican Eagle publishes two days a week – Wednesday and Saturday – and has a weekend supplement has a circulation in excess of 20,000.
[2] The first edition of the Red Wing Republican hit the streets on September 4, 1857.
It was a four-page edition produced by Lucius F. Hubbard, who had arrived by steamboat with an ancient hand press just a few weeks before.
The 21-year-old tinsmith from upstate New York became the ninth governor of Minnesota 25 years later.
[4] In 2021, the Republican Eagle was sold by Forum Communications Company to O'Rourke Media Group.