newspaper
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published seven days a week in Holland, Michigan, United States, founded in 1896. It is published by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Ottawa County, including Holland, Beechwood and Zeeland, as well as northern Allegan County, Michigan, including
Douglas
Douglas may refer to:
People
* Douglas (given name)
* Douglas (surname)
Animals
*Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking
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Originally an afternoon paper published six days a week, the ''Sentinel'' moved to Saturday mornings and then added a Sunday edition in the late 1980s. In the late 1990s, the paper adopted a morning format for all seven days.
Before adopting the name ''The Holland Sentinel,'' it was called ''The Holland Evening Sentinel'' (1928-1977), and before that the ''Holland Daily Sentinel.''
The paper was formerly owned by Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by Morris Communications in 1994. Morris sold the paper, along with 13 others, to GateHouse Media in 2007. In 2019, GateHouse announced it was acquiring Gannett to become the country's largest newspaper chain in the United States.GateHouse, Gannett merger is official, creating largest U.S. newspaper chain /ref>
In the mid 1980s, the ''Sentinel'' was a satellite publishing site for the ''
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television ar ...
''.
In the early 2000s, printing operations were moved to the Allegan, Michigan, facilities of ''The Flashes,'' a weekly advertising only newspaper that Morris Communications had purchased a few years prior. The paper is now published in Detroit.