After 159 years of publishing the newspaper (along with sister publications The Pennant and the South Eastern Times) was briefly discontinued on 21 August 2020.

[4][5][6] However, The Border Watch resumed operation, under a consortium of new publishing owners, in an initial weekly format on 16 October 2020.

[13] It also owned and printed the weekly newspaper The Pennant, which services Penola and district, and the South Eastern Times at Millicent.

[15] Scott died in 2008 and the business remained in the family as part of The Border Watch Media Group (which also controlled The Pennant and the South Eastern Times).

[4][14] However, a revitalised The Border Watch later announced on 24 September that it would return to print, initially in a weekly format, from 16 October 2020.