The Howard County Times
PPC headquarters in Columbia 1978-2011
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Tribune Company |
| Publisher | Paul G. Stromberg |
| Founded | March 17, 1840 |
| Headquarters | Ellicott City, Maryland, Columbia, Maryland |
The Howard County Times (sometimes abbreviated as HoCo Times) is a daily newspaper serving Howard County, Maryland. Founded as a weekly newspaper in 1840, it was acquired by the then-independent local publisher Patuxent Publishing Company in 1978, along with other local papers.The Howard County Times is currently a unit of the Baltimore Sun Media Group and maintains its online news page on The Baltimore Sun website.The Howard County Times website and social media pages provide news items from the Times as well as several other local area newspapers and magazines, including the Columbia Flier, the Laurel Leader, and Howard magazine.
The Howard County Times was founded on 17 March 1840, in Ellicott City, the major town along the upper branches of the Patapsco River (and future county seat) of Howard County, Maryland, just west of Baltimore, the major city and port of Maryland, when Edward Waite and Matthew Fields purchased the Howard Free Press. The name changed again to the Howard District Press (When the county was briefly known as the Western or Howard District of neighboring older Anne Arundel County). The name changed again to The Howard Gazette just prior to the American Civil War. In 1869, the Howard County Times was created with the merger of the Howard County Record, founded by John R. Brown. In 1882, Edwin Warfield, (1848-1920), later Governor of Maryland at the turn of the 19th Century (and future banker and founder/publisher of The Daily Record, a legal/business/finance newspaper (published Monday–Friday) in Baltimore purchased the paper while running for office.
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