• by Ray Schultz , May 8, 2024

Times Publishing Newspapers Inc., owner of several magazine-style newspapers in the Bucks County, Pennsylvania area, has been acquired by O’Rourke Media Group of Gilbert, Arizona. 

Terms were not disclosed. 

The properties, which appear 11 times per year via the U.S. Postal Service, include the Doylestown Observer, Fairless Focus, Langhorne Ledger, Morrisville Times, Newtown Gazette, Northampton Herald, New Hope News, Lower Southampton Spirit, Warwick Journal,and the Yardley Voice , according to the New Hope Free Press.

The existing staff will remain in place, and operations will continue at the current Falls Township office, the Free Press reports. 

In addition to publications in the west, O’Rourke owns titles in Delaware, Virginia, and Vermont, it adds.