[2] It has been published under the current ownership, Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc. since 1963, and in January 2012 it began its 100th consecutive year of publication.
[3] Showing an interest in an issue still important in the desert, the Times supported formation of an irrigation district.
Angela Hutchinson Hammer was a divorced mother of three who had supported her family printing and publishing.
She was approached there by Ted Healey, a Cochise County newspaperman who had the idea of a paper for Casa Grande but needed a printer.
An agreement was made, but problems occurred from the start: She had to pay the freight charges for shipping her equipment because Healey could not, even though he had agreed to do so.
After further problems, Hammer split up the partnership, moved her printing equipment and began publishing the Casa Grande Valley Dispatch in January 1914.
In 1928 Healey sold the Bulletin to his former competitor, and in 1929 the combined paper's name was changed to its present one, Casa Grande Dispatch.
Donovan M. Kramer Sr. and his wife, Ruth, bought the paper in late 1962 from Western Newspapers Inc. of Yuma.
The Kramer family also owns the White Mountain Independent, covering Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside, Springerville, St. Johns and Snowflake.