History
Its flagship daily newspaper, the Casa Grande Dispatch, is published Tuesday through Sunday mornings. The Dispatch turned 100 years old in January 2012, and is Casa Grande's oldest business in operation. Founded in 1912 by Evans T. Richardson, the newspaper was purchased by Ruth and Donovan M. Kramer Sr. in 1962, and CGVNI is one of the area's largest employers. Click here for a history of the Dispatch. The Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune, the company's oldest newspaper, has been part of the fabric of Florence since 1892. In the late 1800s, the newspaper's publisher, Thomas F. Weedin, was one of the newspapermen credited with exposing James Addison Reavis, the self-styled