A. C. Palmer purchased the paper and printing plant around 1898 and moved it to Prineville, where he renamed the Monitor to the Crook County Journal.
[4] J. N. Williamson was made manager of the combined Prineville Review paper that formed in 1894 and was succeeded by L. N. Liggett, who bought the publication.
[15] La Follette, with full ownership, sold the paper for the third time in eight months to Robert H. Jonas in April 1922.
[16] Jonas and his sons sold the Central Oregonian in 1939 to Remey M. Cox, who simultaneously purchased Crook County News from Steve Bailey and merged it into the paper.
[19][18] Two years Batman sold the Central Oregonian to Monroe Sweetland, who then traded it to Edward A. Donnelly for his Milwaukie Review.
[20][21] Donnelly purchased the Tribune Publishing Company, a newspaper printing plant in Prineville, from Steve Bailey in 1959.
[25][26] In October 2018, the newspaper implemented a paywall on its website, under which users are permitted free access to three stories per calendar month, after which payment of per-story fee is required for non-subscribers.