The paper was founded in 1946 as the Addison Independent [1] and is now owned and published by Angelo Lynn.

The Addison Independent was founded in 1946 by William J. Slator and his wife Celine.

[5][6] At the time they owned Addison Press, Inc. which published the paper as well as served a commercial printing plant.

[6] In 1976 William J. Slator sold the Addison County Independent to Gordon T. Mills, who was the editor for the Burlington Free Press.

[citation needed] The Addison County Independent's web site carries local stories and allows for individual online subscriptions.