The association had a capital of $1,250 in shares, which quickly sold at $25 each and so began the newspaper with B. K. Land as the editor.
[3] Financially, the plant and paper did not see great success and were suspended for a few weeks before J. C. Swask obtained the lease.
[3] In 1909, the Times acquired the Waitsburg Gazette, a competing newspaper which had been publishing for eleven years.
[5] In 1939, Wheeler worked with the heirs of an estate at the center of town which was destroyed by fire to convert it into a public park.
[9] Five years later the Matthees sold the paper to Ken Graham, who operated the Times until it was purchased in 2019 by Lane Gwinn.