[3] In 1973, Home News acquired The Greenfield Daily Reporter, in Hancock County east of Indianapolis, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908.
The company held this Angola publication until 2001, when it sold The Herald Republican to KPC Media Group of Kendallville, Indiana, which converted it to a daily newspaper.
At the time, Home News CEO Jeffrey N. Brown said his company wanted to concentrate on "our cluster of newspapers and commercial printing around the Indianapolis and southern Indiana areas".
[7] Five years later it grew its holdings east of Indianapolis with the June 2007 purchase of two weeklies in Madison County, the Lapel Post and The Pendleton Times, which it combined into the Times-Post.
[8] Home News added its latest title in 2012, purchasing The Tribune for an undisclosed sum from California-based publisher Freedom Communications, which was emerging from bankruptcy and selling several of its newspaper assets at the time.