In September 2018, RH Media Group, a locally owned media company, announced they would be taking over publication of The Carthage Press with the first print issue in October.
Publication of the print edition was abruptly shut down in January 2019.
[3] Its roots as a weekly newspaper date to The People's Press, published in Carthage in 1872.
[1] Gatehouse Media announced on August 28, 2018 that the following day's issue would be its last.
RH Media Group announced that it would be carrying on the 146-year-old newspaper tradition.