The Times Herald (Norristown, Pennsylvania) The Times Herald (Norristown, Pennsylvania) The Times Herald is a daily newspaper in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The newspaper began as the "Norristown Gazette", which published its first edition on June 15, 1799. The newspaper's first publisher was David Sower, the son of Christopher Sower, a controversial figure who published ant-war sentiments and was branded a 'Tory,' a derogatory term used to describe Americans who were 'loyal to the British' during the American Revolution. In 1800, the name of the newspaper was changed to the ""Norristown Herald and Weekly Advertiser"", a name it retained in various forms until 1922, when it was
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