The paper was founded in 1958 by S.W. Calkins, who already owned the
Bucks County Courier Times in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania and
The Herald-Standard in
Uniontown, Pennsylvania. At the urging of builder
William Levitt, Calkins began the
Levittown Times in now
Willingboro, New Jersey, with offices and a printing facility on
U.S. Route 130. Following the name change of Levittown to Willingboro, the name of the newspaper changed to "Burlington County Times." In the early 1970s, the paper went from a 6-day afternoon paper at a cost of 60 cents per week to a 7-day paper. Only the Sunday paper was a morning paper, the rest of the week still being published in the afternoons. With the addition of Sunday, the weekly subscription price rose to 75 cents. In 2008, print operations were shifted to a new facility in
Falls Township, Pennsylvania along with the
Bucks County Courier Times and
The Intelligencer. In 2017,
Calkins Media was acquired by GateHouse Media. ==Notable writers==