''The Vidette Times'' is a local newspaper in
Porter County, Indiana
Porter County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 173,215, making it the 10th most populous county in Indiana. The county seat is Valparaiso. The county is part of Northwest Indiana, as well as the Chicago m ...
. It began in 1842 as an occasional, ''the Republican''. In 1866 it came under new ownership as ''The Porter County Vidette''. In 1871, a rival, ''The Valparaiso Democratic Messenger'' emerged. In the 1920s, ''The Vidette'' and ''The Messenger'' merged to form ''The Vidette-Messenger''. In 1994,
Howard Publications Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002.
Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961.York, Tom (2 December 2019)Speci ...
purchased ''The Vidette-Messenger'', renamed it ''The Vidette Times'' in 1995, and attempted unsuccessfully to give it more regional content, but eventually returned it to a local focus.
Valparaiso, Indiana
Newspapers published in Indiana
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