| Friday, February 4, 2005
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YES! Weekly was launched Jan. 5, 2005 by Greensboro resident Charles Womack,
president of Womack Newspapers, Inc a division of Womack Publishing.
www.womackpublishing.com
The new free weekly alternative newspaper focuses on the cultural, political
and artistic aspects of the Triad.
YES! Weekly has a weekly readership of 85,000 and is distributed Wednesdays
to over 500 locations throughout the Triad (Greensboro - High Point - Winston-Salem).
Womack, whose company is a division of Womack Publishing of Chatham, Va.,
also owns the Adams Farm Gazette in Greensboro, the Jamestown News in Jamestown,
and the Outer Banks Sentinel in Nags Head.
Womack Publishing began in 1960 when Womack's grandfather -- also named Charles --
bought the Danville Commercial Appeal in Virginia. Throughout the sixties and seventies
the company acquired and launched more newspapers in Virginia and North Carolina.
Womack Publishing Company, headquartered in Chatham, Virginia is a privately-held,
family-owned, media company of newspapers, telephone directories, speciality
publications and Internet-based businesses. Womack Publishing Co. operates 21
newspapers in VA, NC, and CO. Additional Womack sites include:
WomackNewspapers.com,
VaNcNews.com,
WPCVA.com
and
ACONews.com.
Womack also operates state-wide Legal Notice web sites.
Our Mission is to publish strong, independent and profitable community newspapers. All of our
newspapers strive to be the conscience of the community, a recorder of its history,
a voice for all citizens, and an advocate of the good.