[8] In 1911, Kinnear was sued for libel for placing an advertisement against Maxwell Browne, who was a candidate for District Attorney at the time.
[10] In 1967, Harry Casey, who also owned the Greenfield News and Gonzales Tribune, acquired the Soledad Bee.
[12] As a result, the California Newspaper Publishers Association talked to state legislators about changing the law to require the basic reporting of crimes.
[13] The Soledad Bee and associated weekly papers were sold to News Media Corporation in 1995.
[14] On July 1, 2019, New SV Media purchased the Bee along with three newspapers in the Salinas Valley area and the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian.