By the time Howard Rice died, he wholly owned the "Reformer", leaving it in his will to his three children, Howard, Eleanor and Marion (and her husband John Hooper). It was then sold to the Miller Group of Newspapers in Pittsfield, Mass. By January 2015, it was owned by New England Newspaper Incorporated, under corporate owner, Digital First Media, which at the time was trying to sell off its 76 daily and 160 weekly newspapers. By July 2015, the "Reformer" had only two reporters left and the editor post was shared with the Bennington "Banner." New England Newspapers was sold to local owners in 2016.