In November 2024, the Measer family sold the business to Sample News Group.
It was founded February 8, 1878, as the Lancaster Star by with Paul Bussmaan and William B. Fuller as editors and publishers.
Fuller assumed the entire ownership, and a year later, publication was discontinued.
[2] Founded in 1879 in Williamsville, New York, by Adam Lorenzo Rinewalt (1849–1902),[3] who edited it until shortly before his death.
[4] It is the flagship paper of Bee Group Newspapers and is published weekly on Wednesday.
The Ken-ton Bee serves the village of Kenmore and the town of Tonawanda, New York, was founded in 1982.