Perry died in 1957 and the title of publisher passed to his son-in-law, C. Kenneth Wesley.
At that time, the new owners announced that its offices would soon move to the former A&P grocery store at 133 North Winter Street.
Striking union members published in interim paper called the Maple City Reporter.
[11] In a front-page note, the paper explained: "Such changes are not made without careful consideration of the role and mission of a newspaper.
[15] In 2000, it was purchased by Liberty Group Publishing, an arm of a private equity firm.
[16] Liberty would later be purchased by Fortress Investment Group and rebranded as GateHouse Media.
In 2019, GateHouse Media moved production of the Telegram out of Adrian and to a centralized hub.
[18] In 2022, the newspaper started renting offices in a downtown Adrian co-working space.