Since then the company took over or established the Sandy City Star, the Midvale Times and the Magna and Garfield Messenger with the total subscription becoming nearly three thousand.

[3] Jim and Bette Cornwell came from Nebraska to purchase the Murray Eagle in the mid-1950s and from it spun off the Green Sheet, named for the tint of paper of the front page.

[5] Jeffrey B. Hatch, the former president and general manager of KUTV Television in Salt Lake City, joined John N. Ward, an independent public relations consultant and member of the Murray City Council in purchasing the newspaper and returned the Murray Eagle name back to the Green Sheet, the name it published under in the 1970s-1980s.

[6] The Green Sheet eventually folded in the early 2000s (decade) Two notable journalists wrote for the Murray Eagle.

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Jack Anderson began his career as a teenage journalist covering Murray's local beat.

Ethel Bradford was a favorite local columnist who received national recognition for her folksy views in her "Out My Window" column.