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The Comstock Chronicle and Dayton Valley Dispatch have a new publisher, Denise Crites, the papers announced.
Crites owns a photography business in Dayton and is former director of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce.
She takes over for Elaine Barkdull-Spencer, who is co-owner of the papers and has been serving as publisher since her family bought the Chronicle three years ago from Richard and Angela Mann. Barkdull-Spencer also has a new job as general manager of the Commission for the Reconstruciton of the V&T Railway. As such, the story notes, she’ll be stepping away from daily management of the papers.
The Chronicle combined with the Virginia City News a year ago and added the Dispatch as a Dayton-focused edition. Crites has been writing for the Dispatch in recent months.