''The TimesGazette'' is a daily

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published weekdays and Saturdays in

Hillsboro, Ohio Hillsboro is a city in and the county seat of Highland County, Ohio, United States approximately 35 mi (56 km) west of Chillicothe, and 50 miles east of Cincinnati. The population was 6,605 at the 2010 census. History Hillsboro was p ...

. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest, a subsidiary of AIM Media Management. Published as a daily since October 1, 1973 (when it was called the ''Hillsboro Press Gazette''), ''The Times-Gazette'' traces its history back to a long succession of

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s covering Hillsboro and Highland County, Ohio, starting with the ''Hillsborough Gazette, and Highland Advertiser'', in 1818. In February 1928 the ''Press Gazette'' began circulation when ''The Hillsboro Gazette'' and ''The People's Press'' merged. On March 12, 1996 the ''Press Gazette'', ''Greenfield Daily Times'', ''Lynchburg News'' and ''Leesburg Citizen'' merged to form the ''Times-Gazette'' although the first newspaper with a ''Times-Gazette'' headline wasn't until November 4, 1996. More recently, the newspaper was owned by

Brown Publishing Company Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of ass ...

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before that company went bankrupt and was reconstituted as

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Managem ...

in 2010. The company, including the ''Times-Gazette'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by

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-based Versa Capital Management. In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former

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papers it had acquired,

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, and

Heartland Publications Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...

into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, Ohi ...

. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.

Notable people

* Gary Abernathy editor, 1985–1991, 2011–2018; publisher, 2015–2018; nationally syndicated political commentator

References

External links

* Highland County, Ohio Newspapers published in Ohio Newspapers established in 1818 {{Ohio-newspaper-stub