The paper is considered a paper of public record by the Steuben County clerk's office.[3]
History
The paper was originally published by the W. H. Greenhow Corporation, whose initials were used in the call letters for WWHG, its radio station, founded in 1946, whose studios were on the upper floor in the newspaper's building. In 1987, the paper was acquired by Hollinger.[4]
Former owner GateHouse Media purchased roughly 160 daily and weekly newspapers from Hollinger in 1997.[5] GateHouse Media, which owns the Tribune and Spectator, also owns two other daily newspapers in the Southern Tier, The Leader of Corning in Steuben County, and the Wellsville Daily Reporter in Allegany County. The company owns the Steuben Courier of Bath and two other nearby weeklies, The Chronicle-Express of Penn Yan and the Genesee Country Express of Dansville.