Wagener Monthly Newspaper Discontinued After 19 Years
By Valerie Sliker, Courtesy Wagener Monthly
With great sadness, I have to announce that this 231st edition of the Wagener Monthly is our final one. I’m full of gratitude for my readers, advertisers, columnists, editors and the publisher. The Wagener Monthly has been a presentation of the Aiken Standard which is owned by Evening Post Industries and published by Rhonda Overbey. I’m very thankful for the dedicated work from Karen Klock, Presentations Editor. I’m pretty sure I have given her more than a few gray hairs.
Dee Taylor started the Wagener Monthly at the suggestion of Scott Hoover just over nineteen years ago while Scott Hunter was the publisher of the Aiken Standard. Taylor credits Hunter, her mentor, for getting the paper approved and published. It wouldn’t have happened without him.
Hoover’s Flooring had an ad in every single issue and for that, I thank you Scott and Sandra. Taylor fondly recalls conversations with Scott Hoover in which they dreamed of what could be possible. She was working days as an ad manager at the Aiken Standard at the time.