Western Star Archive Has New Home

John Zimkus, Historian and Director of Education for the Warren County Historical Society shows ones of the hundreds of files of photos from the Western Star archive.

When the Western Star newspaper moved their offices from Lebanon to West Chester, the owner of the venerable paper, Cox Communications, decided to donate their archive of original newspapers and photographs to the Warren County Historical Society. Now housed in the storage vaults located under the Old Post Office, the Western Star archives have settled in for the duration. Volunteers are hard at work scanning the photos into a digital format so they can be added to our electronic database for easy search and access.

Mr. Zimkus has opened one of several hundred bound books containing the original copies of the Western Star newspaper. You can see more volumes stacked on the shelves all around hi,.