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The Times Newspaper (Carroll County Times) 1911 - 1973Description
The Times was established at Westminster with the first issue appearing October 6, 1911 by Mather Printing Company, George K. Mather, editor and business manager. The Times Printing Company, Inc. was organized August 1, 1914 with john H. Mitten and H. Peyton Gorsuch, editors, and Claude T. Kimmey, business manager. J. Leland Jordan was named associate editor In January 1937. In 1947, the Mather family sold the operation to J. Rolling Hunter and John M. McCormick, the latter serving as editor from 1951 to the early 1960s. Hunter’s interest was sold to Elmer Jackson and the name was changed to the Carroll County Times on July 5, 1956. Ownership changed twice during the 1960s: first Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Berman sold the paper to Adam Speigel; in March 1974, Landmark Communications, Inc., the Virginia-based parent company of Landmark Community Newspapers of Kentucky bought the paper. In March 1980, the Times began printing five days a week and a Saturday edition was added in 1984.
An online searchable archives on the Carroll County Times can be found through the Carroll County Public Library:
https://cctimes.carr.org/default.asp