[1] The Orono Weekly Times was started by Roy A. Forrester on January 28, 1937, to fill the void left by the News ending the year previous.

The paper has historically reported on news for communities such as Clarke, Cowanville, Newtonville, Kirby, Kendal, Leskard, Newcastle, Tyrone and Wesleyville.

Roy C. was a veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II, and an avid naturalist that has a butterfly garden named for him on the Orono Crown Lands.

[3] "“The public library is a way of escape from the narrow area of our individual lives into the field of the wisdom and experience of all mankind.”"[4] In April 1995 the paper was purchased by Troy Young.

Young was with Times until January 1997, when it was acquired by Herman and Margaret Zwart, who had had a previous printing relationship with Roy Clarence.