Citrus County Chronicle

The paper was begun in 1889 by Albert M. Williamson as a business encyclical. Walter Warnock, county clerk, took over the publication in the 1890s and added news reporting. The paper has changed hands numerous times throughout the enduing years:

• 1914 - George Butler becomes editor and owner, transferred later that year to Albert Butler
• 1929 - Joseph Wilson of Clearwater, Florida buys the paper, and becomes an agrarian populist editor
• 1935 - acquired by the Scofield Publishing Company
• 1946 - purchased by a succession of Bradenton owners: N.A. Perry and J.R. Hough
• 1947 - bought by Col. George Johnson
• 1948 - sold to the Chicago Sun-Times editor Paul Ramsey
• 1959 - sold to the Bennett Hahn Company, and quickly thereafter to Frances and Carl Turner of Wisconsin
• 1962 - sold to a St. Petersburg group led by Herman Goldner

1963 - sold to David S. Arthurs

• 1980 - merged with Landmark Community Newspapers

1986 - expanded to a daily newspaper

• 2021 - sold to Paxton Media Group, its current owner