The Howard County Times

The Howard County Times
Patuxent Publishing Company’s former headquarters in Columbia, 1978-2011
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Sinclair Broadcast Group
PublisherTrif Alatzas
Founded1869
HeadquartersEllicott City, Maryland & Columbia, Maryland
Websitehowardcountytimes.com

The Howard County Times is a weekly newspaper serving Howard County, Maryland, USA.

Although it claims to trace its earliest origins to 1840,[1] it was refounded as a weekly newspaper in 1869 as The Ellicott City Times, after the purchase of the brief post-American Civil War periodical Ellicott City Record a weekly newspaper then. After nine decades of bearing the name of its main town and county seat, in 1958, its name was changed to The Howard County Times to reflect it's wider coverage of county issues, affairs, and events. It went through other significant changes of ownership in 1882 and 1920. It was finally acquired in 1978 by the then-independent local publisher Patuxent Publishing Company with offices in the nearby city of Columbia, a futuristic planned town by nationally renowned developer James Rouse, along with several other local community weekly papers in Howard County and neighboring Baltimore County (using the Times nameplate) to the northeast in several suburban areas and surrounding Baltimore City in a horseshoe arc.[2]

The Howard County Times is now owned by the Baltimore Sun Media Group, which is a subsidiary of the region's major daily newspaper The Sun, which in turn is now owned since earlier this year by Smith and his Sinclair syndicate.[3] The Howard County paper maintains its online news page on The Baltimore Sun website.[4]

  1. ^ Papenfuse, Edward C.; White, Frank F. Jr., eds. (1977). Maryland Manual 1977-1978. Vol. 178. Annapolis, Maryland: Hall of Records Commission of the State of Maryland. p. 472.
  2. ^ "About Us: Patuxent Publishing Company's History". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  3. ^ "The Baltimore Sun Media Group: Howard County Times". Baltimore Sun Media Group. Archived from the original on 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  4. ^ "The Baltimore Sun: Howard County". Howard County Times. Retrieved 2016-01-07.