The ''Cape Cod Times'' is a
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serving
Barnstable County
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, which encompasses 15 towns on Cape Cod with a year-round population of about 230,000. It is owned by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Greater Washington DC, Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.[The New Bedford Standard-Times'' until the end of 1970. It was first published as an independent daily for Cape Cod on January 1, 1971 and renamed the ''Cape Cod Times'' from September 2, 1975.][Our History]
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The first issues were printed in a converted automobile dealer's garage on Elm Street in Hyannis, now a bus garage. Less than a year after the paper made its debut, plans were announced for the construction of a building at 319 Main Street, which has remained the Times home since early 1938.
As the newspapers entered the late 1960s, it became evident that the historic piggy-back distribution arrangement with the New Bedford paper had outlived its usefulness. Population and business activity on the Cape were growing at a rapid rate and research st