This is the final edition of the Laclede County Record to be published this year.
The first issue of the Record in 2026 will be published Wednesday, Jan. 7. There will be no Jan. 3 issue.
As a reminder to our readers, the Laclede County Record announced recently that it will transition to a weekly publication in January. The Record will now come out once a week on Wednesday.
All current features will continue in the weekly newspaper – Kirk Pearce’s Look Back and Pics from the Past, the correspondents from Stoutland and Rader, the weekly About Towns and all the other features the Record’s readers are used to seeing.
“In addition, we will be publishing more news daily on our website, along with adding obituaries online each day,” Record publisher Jennifer Early said. “This means current news will reach our community even faster than before, with extended, more in-depth stories appearing in the weekly newspaper. Those in-depth stories are what the Laclede County Record does better than any other news source in our area, and we will continue to bring you that same level of coverage.
“Instead of raising rates to cover the increased costs of printing and postage, we were able to lower them from $64.42 to $49.95 a year for Senior and Military subscribers and from $66.91 to $52.95 for all other one-year subscriptions. Readers will receive the same amount of content in the Wednesday paper that they previously received across both the Wednesday and Saturday editions,” she said.
