With the purchase of The Independent-Observer in 1965, Mount Pleasant Publishing Corporation formed The Laurel Group Press, a commercial printing division and Laurel Group Newspapers, a newspaper publishing division.   Laurel Group Newspapers were purchased by Trib Total Media in 2007.   The Independent-Observer was established in 1879.

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