The Blackshear Times The Blackshear Times The Blackshear Times is an American weekly newspaper founded in 1889 and published in Blackshear, Georgia. "The Times" is a community newspaper, thus its coverage is primarily centered on the events in Pierce County, Georgia. The current owner and publisher of "The Times" is Robert Williams Jr. The Papers' motto, as printed in the top-center of the front page, is "Liked by Many, Cussed by Some, Read by Them All." The name of weekly newspaper has been "The Blackshear Times" since October 10, 1889. Exactly who came up with the name is not known, although E.Z. Byrd
The Roanoke Times Landmark Communications, which sold off the broadcasting properties and kept the papers. In 1991, the newspaper became known as "The Roanoke Times & World-News" when the company stopped publication of the afternoon "World-News". The paper dropped the latter part of its name in 1995. Landmark started shopping its newspaper properties in 2008 and sold the "Times" to Berkshire Hathaway's BH Media Group in 2013. This made the "Times" a sister publication to the "Richmond Times-Dispatch", as well as the "News & Advance" of Lynchburg, the other major paper serving the Roanoke/Lynchburg media market. As the major daily newspaper for Roanoke