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Desert Dispatch

The Desert Dispatch was a newspaper published in Barstow, California, from 1910 to 2017.

History

On July 15, 1910, T.G. Nicklin published the first edition of the Barstow Printer.[1] Nicklin sold the paper in 1912 to F.M. LaSage.[2]

In 1933, R.E. Forbush started the Barstow Weekly Review.[3] In October 1936, Caryl Krouser purchased the Barstow Printer from Lloyd E. Tiernan, who operated the paper for two decades.[4] That November, Krouser and Forbush merged their papers to form the Barstow Printer-Review.[3]

On July 3, 1958, Charles K. Dooley, owner of the Colton Courier, published the first edition of the Desert Dispatch in Barstow.[5][6] In October 1958, Courier Enterprises, owned by Dooley, acquired the Barstow Printer-Review from Caryl Krouser and absorbed it into the Dispatch.[7] In October 1959, the paper expanded print editions to five days a week.[8] At that time it had a circulation of 30,000. A new press was installed in 1964.[9]

In 1978, Dooley sold the paper to Thomson Newspapers,[10] who traded it in 1995 to Freedom Communications.[11] As of 2011, newspaper had a daily circulation of 3,259.[12] In 2014, Freedom sold the Dispatch and Victorville Daily Press to New Media Investment Group.[13] In 2017, the paper ceased.[14]

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References

  1. To Have Newspaper The Evening Index, May 26, 1910^
  2. Nicklin Lets Go Barstow Paper The San Bernardino County Sun, October 4, 1912^
  3. Barstow Editors Combine Victor Valley News-Herald, November 27, 1936^
  4. New Editor And Manager Barstow Printer Desert Dispatch, October 1, 1936^
  5. Richard Widmark Reads Desert Dispatch The Colton Courier, July 24, 1958^
  6. The origin of the Desert Dispatch Desert Dispatch, July 8, 2010^
  7. Courier Buys Barstow-Printer Review Paper The Colton Courier, October 3, 1958^
  8. Becomes Daily After 4 Years of Planning Desert Dispatch, September 30, 1959^
  9. Desert Dispatch Now Printed on New Press Desert Dispatch, July 22, 1964^
  10. Dooley sells newspapers The San Bernardino County Sun, October 14, 1978^
  11. Ross Kerber. Freedom Communications, Thomson Swap Newspapers The Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1995^
  12. Freedom Communications Inc – Desert Dispatch Freedom Communications Inc, retrieved September 10, 2011^
  13. Mary Ann Milbourn. Register owner sells Victorville, Barstow newspapers Orange County Register, March 3, 2014^
  14. End of an era: Desert Dispatch publishes last daily edition; converts to weekly next Tuesday Victorville Daily Press, April 11, 2017, retrieved 2025-11-07^