The ''Alameda Times-Star'' was a newspaper in the city of

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. It was last owned by Bay Area News Group-East Bay (BANG-EB), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group, who bought the paper in 1986. The newspaper was scheduled to close down, with the last issue of the paper published on November 1, 2011, along with a proposal to end publication of ''The

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'', Hayward ''

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'', '' Fremont Argus'' and '' West County Times''. On November 2, subscribers were to get copies of the new ''

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'', a localized edition of the ''Mercury News''. The plan was modified to no longer have the ''East Bay Tribune'', but to merge the publication of the ''Times-Star'' with the ''Oakland Tribune''.

History

The Alameda Times-Star began as the Alameda Argus in 1877.Chronicling America, Library of Congress
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