Courier Times

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The Courier-Times
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
EditorKelly Snow
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters111 N. Main St, Roxboro, North Carolina Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Website personcountylife.com

The Courier-Times is a once-a-week newspaper based in Roxboro, North Carolina, covering Person County. Publications are on Thursdays. [1] The newspaper publishes several special sections, in January on Taxes, home improvement in May, local graduates in May, fall sports in August, holiday shopping on Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas greetings on Christmas Day.

In 2017, The Courier-Times was acquired by the owners of The Daily Record in Dunn, North Carolina. [2]

In 2020, then publisher-editor Johnny Whitfield resigned after racist editorial cartoon printed. [3]

Kelly Snow was hired as the publisher and editor in June 2020. Snow served as the C-T's sports editor from 2003 to 2006 and again from January 2012 to September 2020.

References

  1. "rate card" (PDF). Roxboro Courier Times. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 24, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
  2. "Daily Record Owners Buy Roxboro Newspaper". The Daily Record. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
  3. "Roxboro Courier-Times publisher-editor resigns after racist editorial cartoon printed". ABC 11. Retrieved June 16, 2020.