Family sells The Ranger, other Wyoming papers to local woman

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — A group of newspapers in Wyoming has been sold to a local businesswoman. Publisher Steve Peck says Grace Andrus has purchased The (Riverton) Ranger, Lander Journal and Wind River News, along with the ADvertiser/EXTRA, from the Peck family. Peck has been The Ranger’s publisher since 1991. His 38-year career included working 23 years alongside his father, Ranger co-founder Bob Peck, who died in 2007. The Ranger reports Andrus is a Riverton-based financial adviser who approached Peck about buying the newspapers in April. Andrus will operate the business under a new corporate name, Wyoming Media.