A LOOK Back: Edmond’s First Newspaper 

Pioneer newspaperman Milton “Kicking Bird” Reynolds published the first issue of the Edmond Sun on July 18, 1889 – less than three months after the Land Run. Originally published weekly on Thursdays, the four-page paper was printed on a manual printing press. Over time, the newspaper expanded pages and later merged with The Edmond Booster in 1965. 

The Edmond Sun became a daily paper on September 12, 1976, after 88 years of publication as a weekly. Unfortunately, the paper ceased operations during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Prior to its closure, the Sun was the oldest continuously published paper in the state, running for nearly 131 years.