Eloy Enterprise

Founded in 1947 by W.O. Wildman, the Eloy Enterprise has been Eloy’s voice in the community ever since. Eloy is on the grow again with aggressive city leadership and with the annexed Robson Ranch subdivision.

Ruth and Donovan M. Kramer Sr. purchased the newspapers in Casa Grande, Eloy, Florence and Coolidge in 1962, 1967, 1970 and 1971, respectively, and over the next few decades purchased and consolidated two newspapers in Arizona City, and started the Maricopa Monitor and the San Tan Valley Sentinel.

The Kramers formed Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc. They also own the White Mountain Independent and WMICentral.com and WMITV, covering Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, Springerville, St. Johns and Snowflake. The White Mountain Independent was recognized as non-daily Newspaper of the Year in 2014. In mid-2016, the Kramer family purchased The Payson Roundup. The Payson Roundup and Payson.com cover the surrounding Payson Rim Country communities of Star Valley, Pine, Strawberry at the base of the Mogollon Rim. The Payson Roundup has been recognized as Newspaper of the Year 12 times by the ArizonaNewspapers Association as well as being honored as the Nation’s Best Newspaper by the Inland Press Association. Brian Kramer, son of Donovan Jr., is the publisher of the White Mountain Independent and Payson Roundup.

The Arizona Newspapers Association named Donovan M. Kramer Sr. a Master Editor-Publisher in 1976 and inducted him into the Arizona Newspapers Hall of Fame in 1998. Ruth Kramer is now company president, and Donovan Kramer Jr. and Kara K. Cooper are co-publishers of the company’s publications. Kara’s daughter Zoe Cooper also takes part in the day-to-day operations while a student at the University of Arizona. All of the children and grandchildren have worked at the newspapers growing up. The family remains active in ANA and National Newspaper Association, as well as other press organizations.

The Central Saver, delivered on Tuesdays, provides advertisers added value by covering the market with a shopper format. This product reaches over 43,000 households in the Casa Grande Valley each week.

Realtors and affiliated businesses “reach out” through the Arizona Real Estate Buyers’ Guide, which is distributed to locations in the East Valley, Tri-Valley, White Mountain and Payson communities and available online at PinalCentral.com, WMICentral.com and Payson.com each month.

Pinal Ways, the company’s countywide quarterly magazine, features people, places and events – often with a historical flavor.

PinalCentral.com is the market’s leader for local news and advertising. Each month it attracts over one million page views and growing.

TriValley Digital is the company’s online marketing division for digital presence for local, small businesses.

Pinal Productions produces video for online use on PinalCentral.com and for customers needing video production for their own needs.

These newspapers and other publications cover an area of more than 140 miles east to west and 50 miles from north to south; a sprawling and dynamic area that includes Pinal County – Arizona’s third most populous. This vital area, not as thoroughly covered by any other medium or combination of media, includes more than 400,000 people, engaged in such diverse occupations as farming, cattle ranching and feeding, to manufacturing, tourism and retail sales.