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Newspapers & Media · the Gazette's two lives, a Journal, a Town Crier, a News — and one radio station licensed to the town
New Carlisle has been a newspaper town in bursts, not in one unbroken line: the directory record gives the town four papers across a century and a third — a Gazette founded in 1880, a second Gazette founded as a new volume 1 in 1938, a New Prairie Town Crier from 1970, and a New Carlisle News that ran from 2002 to 2015 — with a fifth, the New Carlisle Journal, documented by a state gazetteer in 1916 in between. No two of them are shown by any record reached to have merged, succeeded, or even overlapped; each stands as its own line, and where a line's end is not established this section prints an open gap with its settler, never a cessation date the record does not carry. The broadcast tail is the mirror image of the print story: no television station is licensed to the town, but one full radio station is — WUBU, 102.3 FM, licensed to New Carlisle since 1991 and today the South Bend market's R&B station. This section carries the whole course at the strength each link is documented.
The directory record first: four titles seated in New Carlisle
1690–PRESENT DIRECTORY · U.S. Newspaper Directory, Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
The succession in this section is built from the directory, not from memory or from the papers' reputations: searched by place and pinned to St. Joseph County, Indiana, the United States Newspaper Directory carries four New…
The first press: the New Carlisle Gazette of 1880, and the end the record contradicts
1880 – END NOT ESTABLISHED · the town's first newspaper in the directory record; founder a named gap
New Carlisle's press begins, on the record reached, in 1880: the New Carlisle Gazette is the earliest paper the directory seats in the town — forty-five years after the plat, in a village the state gazetteer of 1884–85 describes…
The Journal: Harry Roloff's paper, 1916–17
BY 1916–17 · publisher Harry Roloff · the one-paper town, stated by the gazetteer itself
Between the two Gazettes, the town's paper wore a third name: Polk's Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1916–17 describes New Carlisle — population 650, on the L.S. & M.S. Railway, thirteen miles west of the county seat…
The Gazette again: B. Wilson's new volume 1, 6 October 1938
6 OCTOBER 1938 – END NOT ESTABLISHED · weekly · publisher B. Wilson (the record carries the initial only)
In the autumn of 1938 the town's oldest newspaper name started over at volume 1: the Library of Congress title record for the second New Carlisle Gazette — a separate record, with its own control number, from the Gazette of 1880…
The New Prairie Town Crier: a directory title, 1970–19??
1970 – END NOT ESTABLISHED · the directory's third New Carlisle title; its character a named gap
The directory's third New Carlisle title is a name keyed to the town's second identity: the New Prairie Town Crier , carried from 1970 to an unknown end in the 1900s, LCCN SN87056632 (OCLC 16826656). "New Prairie" is the name of…
The New Carlisle News, 2002–2015 — and the Gazette's present state, answered
2002 – 9 JANUARY 2015 · biweekly · the town's last home paper in the record reached
The town's twenty-first-century paper was not the Gazette; it was the News, and it has ended: the Library of Congress title record, read first-hand, dates the New Carlisle News 2002–2015, biweekly, described from Vol. 1, issue 5…
The paper as archive — and the archive that is not there
1906–2026 · the Gazette as another leg's witness; the State Library's tested negative
The Gazette's largest surviving trace is the history it fed: Hugh V. Compton wrote his recollections of Terre Coupee prairie — the settlement country south and west of the town — for the New Carlisle Gazette of 16 November 1906…
Correspondents: a future Vice President writes from New Carlisle, and a pioneer writes for the Gazette
1836–1843 · 1906 · the journalists at the size the record carries
New Carlisle produced no editor of record's record — but it housed, for five boyhood years, a boy who became one of Indiana's great editors: Schuyler Colfax came to New Carlisle in 1836, aged thirteen, with his mother and his…
Newspapers & Media: Not Found in the Record
DIRECTORY TESTED, NOVEMBER 2026 · the boundary carriers named at boundary size
Two branches of the checklist were tested against the directory record and returned negatives, printed here with the searches named so a checker can re-run them: The foreign-language press. The four directory titles seated in New…
Coverage today: the county seat's daily, the town's own website, and no home paper
AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · dated from the coverage itself
Since the News closed in January 2015, New Carlisle's news has run the way Walkerton's does — through the county seat: the South Bend Tribune is the town's paper of record in practice, and its New Carlisle coverage in the record…
Broadcast: WUBU, 102.3 FM — the station licensed to New Carlisle — and the South Bend–Elkhart signals that serve the town
2 JULY 1991 – PRESENT · radio seated in the town, tested and found; television at boundary
The broadcast test returns the opposite of the television test: no television station is licensed to New Carlisle in the records reached — but a full commercial FM station is, and has been since 1991. WUBU (102.3 FM) , Facility…
Newspapers & Media: Open Questions
REGISTER · each gap with its settling source
What this section could not settle, named with what would settle it: GAP-NC-NWS-1 , the founder-printer and politics of the Gazette of 1880 — no masthead, Rowell, or Ayer entry naming them was reached; settlers: the Gazette 's…