Todd, the Sapulpa Daily Herald later merged with the older Sapulpa Evening Light – the city's oldest newspaper, founded in 1896 as a weekly, and relaunched as a daily in 1908 – when the Light's publisher, Oren Miller Irelan, entered a partnership with Young.
[1] The Matthews family sold to Ed Livermore in 1959; he bought out his only competitor, the weekly County Democrat News, in 1965.
Livermore, a Sapulpa resident after whom the University of Oklahoma journalism chair is named, was the last local owner.
[1] The Herald changed owners again in October 2007, when CNHI sold it and two other papers to the Sumner family.
In 2008, the Sapulpa Daily Herald made no mention of President Obama's presidential victory.