Good Times (newspaper) Good Times (newspaper) Good Times is a free-circulation weekly newspaper based in Santa Cruz, California. "Good Times" is distributed in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Rio del Mar, Aptos and Watsonville. It is owned by the Northern California-based Metro Newspapers. Dan Pulcrano is the CEO and executive editor. "Good Times" was founded in 1975 by Jay Shore, who remained its owner/operator and editor for 13 years. Shore established "Good Times" amidst a proliferation in the 1970s of short-lived free counterculture newspapers in Santa Cruz County that included "The Free Spaghetti Dinner", "Sundaz!", "Santa Cruz Times", "People’s
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