The Jupiter Courier, Sebastian Sun, Vero Beach Newsweekly and YourNews were other weekly newspapers formerly published by owners Scripps, Journal Media Group and finally Gannett.
Schumann and son John Justin, arrived from the Orlando Reporter-Star and started the thrice-weekly Vero Beach Journal.
A slowing economy weighed on both papers, including forcing the Press to cut back to weekly publication in January 1927 from its expanded six-day production schedule.
During the 1970s, the newspaper changed from an afternoon to a morning edition and gradually added publication days until it became a daily in 1982.
[3] At the time of its sale to Scripps in 1997,[4] it was the last daily newspaper in Florida wholly owned by a family.