SALISBURY DAILY TIMES

HISTORY DELMARVA

SALISBURY MARYLAND'S DAILY TIMES

A newspaper, 'The Wicomico News, was first published in May 1886, a weekly,

by it's first editor, Charles L. Truitt and his cousin Alfred Truitt, the publisher.

46 years later it became a daily, December 3, 1923 it appeared as 'The Evening Times' , thence, Salisbury Times, thence, Shoreman's Daily. 1967 it took up the

Daily Times name and had a Sunday issue “ The Sunday Times”. 1989 the Daily Times

was on the streets early mornings. Today the Daily Times is published seven days a week.

The paper works was for many years found on Main Street, later, a new building was

built on Upton, Street, now Carroll Street. Across the street was the city hospital. This plot

was where the Wicomico High School had stood and before that, during the Civil War,

had the encampment of Union troops. The school was demolished and replaced by a modern

newspaper plant in 1957. That structure was sold in 2008 to the Peninsula General Hospital and the paper moved to Northwood Park and installed a multimillion dollar press. In 2011

the parent company, Delmarva Media Group, transferred operations to Wilmington's News Journal facility at Wilmington. On October 20, 2017, the Daily Times returned to Salisbury

to make it's home at downtown Salisbury at 115 South Division Street, the Salisbury Fire

Department's vacated #16 station house

Daily Times, first owned by the Truitt family of Salisbury, sold to Brush-Moore News, Canton, Ohio, in 1937, 30 years later they sold to Thompson Newspapers, Toronto,

Canada, thence to Gannett in 2000. The on line news product is “Delmarva now”.

Abstract: Daily Times, Wednesday, June 21, 1967, Salisbury, Maryland