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The Standard-Examiner is a daily morning newspaper published in Ogden, Utah . With roughly 30,000 subscribers on Sunday and 25,000 daily, it is the third largest daily newspaper in terms of circulation in Utah, after The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News . It was acquired by Sandusky Newspapers, Inc. of Sandusky, Ohio , on March 23, 1994.

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7-748: On January 1, 1888, the first edition of the Ogden Standard was published. In 1904, the newspaper became rivals with the Ogden Examiner . Subsequently, on April 1, 1920, the two competitors merged, creating the Standard-Examiner . The Standard-Examiner kept its offices in the Kiesel Building, just west of 24th Street ( SR-53 ) and Washington Boulevard ( US-89 ), until 1961 when the offices moved to 455 23rd Street. The building would remain there for 39 years. During that time,

14-570: A Real Time Desk, which reports breaking news online and curates the website. In April 2018, the Provo Daily Herald announced that it was buying Standard-Examiner . In mid-2018, The Ogden Newspapers Company bought out most of the Ogden Standard Examiner. The Standard-Examiner is Utah's third largest daily news source, serving Weber , Davis , Box Elder and Morgan Counties for over 128 years. The Top of Utah

21-586: A remnant of SR-37 , which was truncated to its current length at that time. SR-53 begins at exit 342 of I-15 , and heads northeast of Pennsylvania Avenue before curving east into 24th Street. A viaduct built in about 1970 takes the road over the Weber River , the Union Pacific Railroad 's Ogden Yard at the old Union Station , and SR-204 (Wall Avenue). Two blocks after SR-53 returns to ground level, it ends at US-89 . The entire route

28-546: Is in the Weber Valley , which locally slopes down towards the Weber River. 24th Street west of SR-1 ( US-91 , now US-89 ) was added to the state highway system in 1915, becoming part of SR-37 in 1927 and SR-38 in 1931, only to be given back to SR-37 in 1964 (along with former SR-39 on 24th Street east of US-89). The state legislature removed parts of SR-37 from the state highway system in 1969, renumbering

35-516: Is used to refer to the northern section of Utah, including the Davis, Weber, Box Elder, Morgan, Cache , and Rich counties." This term was coined by Standard-Examiner publisher Scott Trundle in the mid-1990s and used in a December 31, 2000, Ogden Standard-Examiner editorial as "the six-county Top of Utah region." The Marriott Library at the University of Utah has digitized early editions of

42-626: The newspaper, still owned by Glasmann's descendants, was sold to the Ohio-based Sandusky Newspaper Group (SNG). It is the largest-circulation newspaper owned by SNG. In 2000, the Standard-Examiner moved to Business Depot Ogden , a business park that had once been Defense Depot Ogden . A new $ 10 million printing press was installed, and the newspaper switched to morning publication in the same year. The Standard-Examiner reorganized its newsroom in August 2015 around

49-526: The predecessor versions of the Standard-Examiner , including the Ogden Junction , the Ogden Herald , and the Ogden Standard . Utah State Route 53 State Route 53 ( SR-53 ) is a 1.949-mile-long (3.137 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Utah , connecting Interstate 15 (I-15) and I-84 with U.S. Route 89 (US-89) via Ogden 's 24th Street. SR-53 was created in 1969 as

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