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Taking over from the Dignams
Monday, April 2, 1984
I bought The Yea Chronicle business from long-time publisher Thomas Michael Dignam on April 2, 1984. Raised on farmland that now incorporates the Yea Golf Course, Thomas Michael Dignam was Yea’s most enduring newspaper editor. Tom was son of William and Mary Dignam. His older brother was Willie; younger brother was Eddie; and he had