[3] Early in Dick Thompson's tenure, the paper was thrown into the national spotlight when federal commissioner Eugene Dunnegan was sent by the Roosevelt administration to Tallassee as a labor dispute mediator.
[6] "Please keep in mind always in your work of adjusting industrial disputes," read the edict, "that you have no right to tell any editor what he may or may not print in his news or editorial column.
Golson, the legendary editor of the Wetumpka Herald, published the newspaper for a time, before moving on.
[9] Green ran the paper to wide acclaim for a few years,[10] but retired due to ill health, selling the paper former editor of the Farm Bureau News and returning WWII veteran Herve Charest in June 1946.
[17] In 2015, the Tribune won a first-place award for best in-depth coverage from the Alabama Press Association, which singled out its piece on Ku Klux Klan recruiting in Tallassee as providing "excellent coverage of a controversial topic.