It was formed in 1978 through the unification of the Journal of Woodsville, New Hampshire and the United Opinion of Bradford by Robert "Bob" Powell who owned both papers.
Between 1879 and 1881, disputes and financial troubles led to the publication of two competing versions of the weekly paper, one called Bradford Opinion (published by the Orange County Publishing Company) and the other called Stanton's Bradford Opinion.
[5] After the fire, the United Opinion was printed in conjunction with the White River Valley Herald until 1970, when it was sold and consolidated with the North Country Journal.
[4] In 2007, a reporter for the Bradford Journal-Opinion was at the center of a Vermont Supreme Court case relating to journalists' First Amendment rights.
[7] In October 2022, employee Michelle Sherburne and her husband Rodney purchased the paper from Connie Sanville.