Kettering-Oakwood Times

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Kettering-Oakwood Times
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Civitas Media
Founded1956
Ceased publicationAugust 9, 2013

The Kettering-Oakwood Times was a weekly suburban newspaper last owned by Civitas Media of Davidson, North Carolina.

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Overview

The newspaper, first published in 1956, was one of three Civitas-owned Dayton, Ohio-area community papers that ceased publication on August 9, 2013. [1] [2] The paper was formerly owned by Brown Publishing Company and Amos Press.

The paper, which was known locally as the "K-O Times", primarily served Kettering and Oakwood, Ohio, suburbs south of Dayton.

Its most famous columnist was local housewife and humorist Erma Bombeck, whose column first appeared in its pages. [3] Ted Rall's editorial cartoons were also first published in the "K-O Times".

In 1971, the paper's women's section, edited by Anita Richwine, won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence. [4]

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