The ''North County Times'' was a local newspaper in

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. It was headquartered in Escondido. The final publisher was Peter York. It was formed in 1995 from the merger of the ''North County Blade-Citizen'' of Oceanside (founded 1929) and the '' Escondido Times-Advocate'' (founded 1909) by

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. Beginning in 1997, the Times also published ''The Californian'' in

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, located in southwest

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. The newspaper was published with three local editions including ''The Californian''.

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acquired Howard in 2002. From 2008 through 2011, the paper laid off dozens of staff members, including at least a third of its editorial/newsroom staff. Doug Manchester, owner of '' U-T San Diego'' (known as ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'' after 2015), bought the ''North County Times'' from

in September 2012 for just under $12 million. One third of the staff was laid off. Subsequently, the print edition of the newspaper was folded into the ''U-T'' and called ''U-T North County Times'', which is an edition of ''U-T San Diego'' and combines North County-specific content with features and columns from the ''U-T''. The ''North County Times'' headquarters in Escondido were sold to the Classical Academy charter school. On March 7, 2013, the separate ''U-T North County Times'' name was dropped and a ''U-T'' North County edition produced which further integrates ''U-T'' with North County-specific pages, while eliminating differences between the two. Previously both the ''U-T North County Times'' and the regular ''U-T'' were sold side by side at newsstands. ''Californian'' readers were merged into the ''U-T Californian'', which includes a front section of Southwest Riverside County-specific content with the remaining content from the ''U-T'' North County edition. As of May 28, 2013, publication of the ''U-T Californian'' was terminated, and it was also reported that the distinct content of the North County edition was being de-emphasized. In January 2013, U-T San Diego took the archives of the North County Times offline; since then finding ''North County Times'' articles has been "hit or miss at best, mostly miss", according to the ''

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''. The Georgina Cole branch of the

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keeps

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copies of the ''North County Times'' covering January 1, 1996 to November 30, 2012 that are publicly available to view and scan.

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