Sale announced for building that has housed newspaper since 1914

This morning’s news that our building has a buyer is emotional for our newsroom.

Campbell Avenue has been our home since 1914. For 107 years, we’ve documented the history of Southwest Virginia with this corner of downtown serving as our nerve center. We don’t know yet where we’ll end up next.

The words of 1936 editor H. Powell Chapman — writing on the occasion of the paper’s golden anniversary — are echoing in our minds today.

We know they still ring true for us. We hope they resonate with our corporate owners as we seek a new home and look ahead to the next 107 years:

“Today, on its fiftieth birthday, the Times can but repeat what it said ten years ago: It is thoroughly in love with its job and it intends to make of that job the utmost possible as an instrument of service and usefulness and helpfulness to this city, this section, this state.”

Photo courtesy of Stephanie Klein-Davis