[2] Don Kendall, a former executive at Black Press, purchased the Townsman and Kimberly Daily Bulletin in July 2010, as part of a larger deal that saw Glacier Media sell several of its British Columbia papers to Black.
At the time, Kendall said Black "wasn't as interested in some titles – Cranbrook, Kimberley, Nelson, and Prince Rupert – but Glacier was only selling the papers as a block.
It already owned competing weeklies in both Nelson and Prince Rupert.
[4] Although it also owns a competing weekly in Cranbrook, the Kootenay Advertiser, Black purchased the Townsman and Daily Bulletin from Kendall a year later, promising that both the weekly and the dailies "will continue to run under their current business plan and we anticipate few changes.
"[5] All of Black's community newspapers in the East Kootenay region are printed on the Townsman's presses.