The ''Crookston Daily Times'' was a weekly newspaper published in

Crookston, Minnesota Crookston is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the county seat of Polk County. The population was 7,482 at the 2020 census. It is part of the " Grand Forks, ND- MN Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "Greater Grand Forks". Crookst ...

. It was owned by

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. The newspaper covered Crookston and

Polk County, Minnesota Polk County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 31,192 at the 2020 census. Its county seat is Crookston, and the largest community is East Grand Forks. Polk County is part of the Grand Fo ...

, and was one of two daily newspapers published in the

Greater Grand Forks The Greater Grand Forks (officially the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan statistical area), as defined by the Census Bureau as comprising all of Grand Forks County in North Dakota and Polk County in Minnesota, anchored by the twin cities of G ...

metropolitan area. The ''Crookston Daily Times'' in 2009 was the smallest daily newspaper in

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

, and one of the smallest daily newspapers in the United States at that time.

History

The ''Crookston Daily Times'' was founded in 1891.

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sold the paper to

in December 2021. The ''Times'' published its final issue on February 7, 2025. The closure came after the company struggled to find workers and the City of Crookston chose to move its legal notices to the ''Thief River Falls'' shopper.

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* Gannett publications Greater Grand Forks Newspapers published in Minnesota Polk County, Minnesota Newspapers established in 1891 1891 establishments in Minnesota {{minnesota-newspaper-stub