![]() Patuxent Publishing Company’s former headquarters in Columbia, 1978-2011 | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Sinclair Broadcast Group |
Publisher | Trif Alatzas |
Founded | 1869 |
Headquarters | Ellicott City, Maryland & Columbia, Maryland |
Website | howardcountytimes |
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]