New Century Press

New Century Press, Inc. was formed from gathering together, what for many years, were independently owned weekly newspapers. In most instances these newspapers, and their successors are today the longest continually operated businesses in their respective communities. The Lyon County Reporter, first published in 1884, is not only the oldest business in Rock Rapids, IA but in Lyon County. For the better part of the last century the Smith family operated the Lyon County Reporter in Rock Rapids. Paul Smith is still a publishing legend to many of the communitys senior generation. His daughter Lucy and husband Bud Colby published the newspaper for many years before selling to David Enerson in the late 1980s. Enerson acquired the West Lyon Herald and the Sioux County Index-Reporter in 1990 and integrated the production of the three newspapers. In early 1995 Lyon-Sioux Press purchased The New Era in Parker, S.D. Later in 1995 the group purchased the Sentinel-Tribune of Westbrook and W...