[1] According to the Historic Downtown Paducah special section of the Sun published June 28, 2002, the newspaper traces it roots to 1896, when a group of investors headed by Frank M. Fisher launched The Evening Sun by buying the assets of the failing Paducah Standard at 214 Broadway.
The name changed to The Paducah Sun in 1978 at the request of Jack Paxton, editor at the time and grandson of Edwin J.
[3] The Paducah Sun, the flagship newspaper of Paxton Media Group, serves western Kentucky and southern Illinois, providing the most complete local news and sports coverage for the 17-county region.
The Sun also offers additional publications, such as the quarterly Posh magazine, and monthly editions of House Call and the Four Rivers Business Journal, to meet the eclectic tastes and interests of its readers.
These records can be found in the office of the Criminal Court Clerk of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County.