The Beaver County Times is a daily newspaper published in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States and serving the north-western Pittsburgh suburbs. The Times is a direct descendant of many of Beaver County's newspapers, starting with the Minerva, first published in 1807, and generally believed to have been the county's first newspaper.[1] The Beaver Times was founded by Michael Weyland and was published from 1851 to 1895, when the name was changed to the Beaver Argus. It was changed again to The Daily Times, which was published from 1909 to 1946 and operated by John L. Stewart and E. L. Freeland. It was sold in 1946 to S. W. Calkins, who combined it with the Aliquippa Gazette, which he acquired in 1943. The paper was known as The Beaver Valley Times until 1956, when it became The Beaver County Times after its acquisition of the Ambridge Daily Citizen. In 1979, The Times purchased the only other daily newspaper in the county, The News Tribune of Beaver Falls.

The Times currently produces over-the-top content including their flagship news program The Times Today, Game On, History in a Minute, Get Out This Weekend, and more.

One of the paper's biggest milestones was when the publications changed from evening to morning on April 7, 1997. Archival issues of The Beaver County Times can be viewed online at Google News

A history

Flush from his mortal wounding of Alexander Hamilton and intent on conquering the Spanish Territories with a small flotilla of locally built Orleans boats, former Vice President Aaron Burr had just shoved off from the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio rivers when the first newspaper was printed in the frontier forestland of western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County.

Burr’s expedition foundered. But The Minerva, a four-page weekly that rolled off a single-sheet wood and iron press on Nov. 4, 1807, wrote the introduction to a long and colorful story of newspapering in Beaver County that has seen the publication of at least 122 nameplates.

The culmination of that history is The Beaver County Times, which traces its 160-year lineage to the Beaver Times. First published in the county seat of Beaver in 1851, this publication has changed names as frequently as it has changed owners.

A timeline of The Times:

1851-1859: The Beaver Times.

1859-1909: Beaver Argus.

1909-1946: The Daily Times.

1946:-1959: The Beaver Valley Times.

1960-today: The Beaver County Times.

S.W. Calkins created The Times out of the Aliquippa Gazette, Beaver Daily Times, the Ambridge Daily Citizen and the Beaver Falls News-Tribune.

Modern Times

The Beaver County Times today is the county’s primary information source and sole daily newspaper. Its emergence as the premiere news outlet for western Pennsylvania was engineered by an emerging media magnate, S.W. Calkins of Uniontown, who purchased his first Beaver County newspaper, the Aliquippa Gazette, in 1943. Three years later he purchased The Beaver Daily Times and combined the two papers to create The Beaver Valley Times.

In 1959 Calkins purchased the Ambridge Daily Citizen and shortly thereafter renamed his combined publications The Beaver County Times. He moved the company in 1964 to its current location in Bridgewater, overlooking Burr’s disembarkation point. When Calkins Media purchased The News Tribune of Beaver Falls in 1978, The Times achieved its pre-eminence as the region’s largest suburban daily newspaper.

For almost 80 years, Calkins Media served the community until The Times was sold in June 2017 to GateHouse Media. The Times also operates The Ellwood City Ledger, a daily newspaper in southern Lawrence County. GateHouse, which publishes 656 community and business publications, including 130 daily newspapers, along with more than 555 affiliated websites in 36 states, is one of the largest media companies in the country. It is overseen by New Media Investment Group.