Twenty-seven years ago, three people decided this neighborhood deserved a newspaper of its own.
John Myers, Tim Mullan and Tara Blanc launched North Central News in the fall of 1999 with no guarantee it would see a second year. It has now seen 27 – through a recession, a pandemic, and a stretch of industry consolidation that closed community papers all over the country. That is not luck. That is a publisher who knew exactly who she was writing for, and a community that read what she printed.
My name is Jim O’Rourke, and as of August 1, my company O’Rourke Media Group (OMG) became the new owner of what she built…