The San Gabriel Valley Tribune is a paid daily newspaper located in Monrovia, California , that serves the central and eastern San Gabriel Valley . It operated at the West Covina location from 1955 to 2015. The Tribune is a member of Southern California News Group (formerly the Los Angeles Newspaper Group ), a division of Digital First Media . It is also part of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, along with the Pasadena Star-News and the Whittier Daily News .
7-679: The newspaper chain Brush-Moore purchased the Tribune in 1960. Thomson Newspapers purchased Brush-Moore in 1967. Thomson sold the Tribune to Singleton's MediaNews Group in 1996. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune was launched on March 21, 1955, in West Covina, California. Before the launching, readers had to read community weeklies. The newspaper was founded by Carl Miller, his brother A.Q. Miller and Corwin Hoffland. After 60 years at
14-811: A Director of the Beaverkettle Company. At the time of the 1967 sale, Brush-Moore owned 12 daily papers, including six in Ohio (the Canton Repository , East Liverpool Review , Salem News , Steubenville Herald , Marion Star , and Portsmouth Times ) three in California ( Times-Standard , San Gabriel Valley Tribune , and Oxnard Press-Courier ), and one in Maryland ( Salisbury Daily Times ), Pennsylvania ( Hanover Evening Sun ), and West Virginia ( Weirton Daily Times ), with
21-517: The West Covina location, the newspaper moved its operations to Monrovia, with daily local news coverage which includes city government, public education, public safety, transportation issues, entertainment, lifestyle, and editorials. The newspaper has received a number of awards, including best in front page category from the California Newspaper Publishers Association among suburban area dailies. It publishes
28-708: The annual So Cal Prep Legends high school football magazine with coverage from the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel/Pomona Valleys, the Whittier area, the South Bay, Long Beach/Gateway Cities, Orange County, western and central Riverside County and San Bernardino Valley, published in late August. The annual San Gabriel Valley's Best magazine, which publishes in late May, honors the best people, places to shop, eateries, and services in
35-464: The largest ever newspaper transaction at that time. In 1923, Louis Herbert Brush, who had joined the Salem News (of Salem, Ohio ) as a manager in 1894 and purchased it in 1897, entered into a partnership with Roy Donald Moore and William Henry Vodrey, Jr. to purchase The Marion Star from then-U.S. President Warren G. Harding . By 1924, Time magazine already noted the group as one of
42-490: The prominent newspaper groups in the country, with four papers and a total circulation of 30,906. In 1927, the "Brush-Moore" chain was created from their holdings. Joseph K. Vodrey, son of W.H. Vodrey Jr., became general manager of Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. in 1946. Vodrey was Vice-President and a member of the Brush-Moore board of directors from 1951 to 1968, when he retired. He also served as Vice-President and as
49-484: The region. Coverage area for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune includes the cities of This article about a California newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brush-Moore Newspapers Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. was a United States newspaper group based in Ohio which had its origins in 1923 and was sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1967 for $ 72 million,
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