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 community’s 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 Walnut Grove, MN and with it, partnership in the Southwest Minnesota Peach, another common supplement. Late in 2000 a new corporation, New Century Press, Inc., (NCP) was formed to include all company properties. In 2007 NCP purchased Hansen Anderson Basketball from the estate of its founder Richard Hansen. In November, this company publishes previews of every high school basketball program in South Dakota. In late 2010 NCP expanded into North Dakota with the acquisition of the Griggs County Courier and the Steele County Press. At the same time the company acquired the FM Extra based in Moorhead, MN and serving an area of approximately 1,000 square miles surrounding the Fargo/Moorhead metro. Since then the “Extra” concept has been expanded to include the NW Iowa Extra in the four most northwesterly counties of Iowa. In 2012 NCP began planning another new product line, high-end glossy magazines.To that end River Valley Woman (RVW) launched in early summer of 2013.
