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Vidette Times
''The Vidette Times'' is a local newspaper in Porter County, Indiana. It began in 1842 as an occasional, ''the Republican''. In 1866 it came under new ownership as ''The Porter County Vidette''. In 1871, a rival, ''The Valparaiso Democratic Messenger'' emerged. In the 1920s, ''The Vidette'' and ''The Messenger'' merged to form ''The Vidette-Messenger''. In 1994, Howard Publications Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002. Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961.York, Tom (2 December 2019)Speci ... purchased ''The Vidette-Messenger'', renamed it ''The Vidette Times'' in 1995, and attempted unsuccessfully to give it more regional content, but eventually returned it to a local focus. Valparaiso, Indiana Newspapers published in Indiana {{Indiana-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porter County, Indiana
Porter County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 173,215, making it the 10th most populous county in Indiana. The county seat is Valparaiso. The county is part of Northwest Indiana, as well as the Chicago metropolitan area. Porter County is the site of much of the Indiana Dunes, an area of ecological significance. The Hour Glass Museum in Ogden Dunes documents the region's ecological significance. History The Porter County area was occupied by an Algonquian people dubbed Huber-Berrien.Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History; University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma (1987) Map 5 This subsistence culture arrived after the glaciers retreated around 15,000 years ago and the rise of glacial Lake Algonquian, 4–8,000 years ago. The native people of this area were next recorded during the Iroquois Wars (1641–1701) as being Potawatomi and Miami. The trading post system used by the French and then the English encourag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Publications
Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002. Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961.York, Tom (2 December 2019)Special Report: Wealthiest San Diegans ''San Diego Business Journal'' (paywall) ("Robert S. Howard was for many years a North County newspaper publishing magnate. He founded Howard Publications in 1961 and built it into a chain of 19 dailies including the North County Times...") As of early 1972, group owned nine daily newspapers.(31 May 1972)Corning Leader Sold to Howard Publications ''Elmira Star-Gazette'', p. 9 (paywall) Lee Enterprises announced that it would acquire the company on February 12, 2002, for $694 million, with a closing later that year.(13 February 2002)Lee Newspapers to buy Howard Publications ''The Baltimore Sun'' At the time of the sale, Howard employed 2,400 people, and its papers had a total daily circulation of 479,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valparaiso, Indiana
Valparaiso ( ), colloquially Valpo, is a city and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 34,151 at the 2020 census. History The site of present-day Valparaiso was included in the purchase of land from the Potawatomi people by the U.S. Government in October 1832. Chiqua's town or Chipuaw was located a mile east of the current Courthouse along the Sauk Trail. Chiqua's town existed from or before 1830 until after 1832. The location is just north of the railroad crossing on State Route 2 and County Road 400 North. Located on the ancient Native American trail from Rock Island to Detroit, the town had its first log cabin in 1834. Established in 1836 as ''Portersville'', county seat of Porter County, it was renamed to Valparaiso (meaning "Vale of Paradise" in Old Spanish) in 1837 after Valparaíso, Chile, near which the county's namesake David Porter battled in the Battle of Valparaiso during the War of 1812. The city was once called the "Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
