After his death in 1965, his widow, Dr. Virginia Curtin, and children continued publishing it. After her death in 1977, Tim Curtin has been publisher.

     The Republican tries to conduct itself professionally in keeping with its seniority, but it also tries to avoid becoming too tame, as any conscientious newspaper should. That’s also in keeping with the feisty spirit of its pioneering founders.

     The newspaper covers the Blaine County area as well as Watonga and also has become a main source of news and communication for the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes. It seeks to provide the news informed citizens need.

     News papering requires a myriad of details to be accomplished prior to “deadline.” This includes photography, news gathering and writing, sale of advertising and composition of the finished advertisements, gathering of garage sale notices, etc., compiling legal notices and typeset, proofreading of all content, to name just some of them.

     Locally the staff also publishes the Hinton Record  and must do all the above for that paper also. This makes 104 deadlines a year, and in 44 years that is what makes editors go gray.