For more than 100 years this Jefferson County newspaper has been providing its readers with the best local news, lifestyle, religion, agriculture, business and community coverage possible.

For the last eight years, the newspaper has operated as a consolidation of The News and Farmer, Georgia's oldest weekly paper and the Jefferson Reporter.

It serves all of historic Jefferson County, which includes the cities of Avera, Stapleton, Wrens, Wadley, Bartow, Matthews and Louisville, the first designated permanent capitol of Georgia, and Glascock County, which includes the cities of Gibson, Mitchell and Edgehill.

The News and Farmer and Wadley Herald / The Jefferson Reporter is published each Thursday, distributing 5,100 copies through mail and on racks inside 45 retail establishments in Jefferson and Glascock counties.

Morris Communications acquired The News and Farmer and Wadley Herald / The Jefferson Reporter in September 2002.