Wantagh Herald Citizen

See also: List of newspapers in New York

The Wantagh Herald is an American weekly newspaper that serves Garden City, Wantagh, and Seaford in Nassau County, New York.^[2] It is published on Thursdays with a circulation of 3,081 as of 2018.^[1]

Wantagh Herald

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid, Digital
Owner(s)	Richner Communications
Publisher	Clifford and Stuart Richner
Editor	None
Founded	1949 (as Southeaster)
Language	American English
Headquarters	2 Endo Boulevard Garden City, Nassau County, New York 11530
City	Garden City
Country	United States
Circulation	2,952 (as of 2018)[1]
Sister newspapers	Long Island Herald newspaper chain, Nassau Herald, The Jewish Star, Oyster Bay Guardian, The Riverdale Press
ISSN	2469-813X
OCLC number	883786393
Website	liherald.com/wantagh
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It is considered a paper of public record by Nassau County clerk's office.^[3]

History

The Wantagh Herald Citizen was founded as the Southeaster in 1949 and became the Wantagh Seaford Citizen in 1953.^[4][2] The paper was split in two and changed in 2014 to the Wantagh Herald Citizenand Seaford Herald Citizen. In 2021, they both became the Wantagh Herald and Seaford Herald.^[5]

G.L. Bricker, an early editor of the Southeaster paper in Wantagh, was sued for a million dollars for libel by the New York Communist Party.^[6]

In 1958, Faith and Johannes Laursen purchased the paper, along with Merrick Life, Bellmore Life, and the Freeport-Baldwin Leader.^[7] Johannes Laursen was briefly the head of the New York Press Association.^[8][9] The four papers together comprised L&M Publications, which was later run by the Laursen's children, Linda Toscano and Paul Laursen.^[10]

L&M Publications was acquired in 2013 by Richner Communications, and the Wantagh Seaford Citizen was added to Richner's newspaper group, Herald Community Newspapers. It was split into two newspapers; the Wantagh Herald Citizen and Seaford Herald Citizen. In 2021, both papers dropped the Citizen from their title, and are now the Wantagh Herald and Seaford Herald.^[7][10]

Awards

Herald Community Papers received 2nd place in the New York Press Association's 2017 Better Newspapers Contest, in the category of Group or Chain Newspapers.^[11] The Wantagh Herald Citizen also received 2nd place in that 2017 contest for Best Small Space Ad.^[11]