Originally an afternoon paper published six days a week, the
Sentinel moved to Saturday mornings and then added a Sunday edition in the late 1980s. In the late 1990s, the paper adopted a morning format for all seven days. Before adopting the name
The Holland Sentinel, it was called
The Holland Evening Sentinel (1928–1977), and before that the
Holland Daily Sentinel. The paper was formerly owned by
Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by
Morris Communications in 1994. Morris sold the paper, along with 13 others, to
GateHouse Media in 2007. In 2019, GateHouse announced it was acquiring Gannett to become the country's largest newspaper chain in the United States. In the mid 1980s, the
Sentinel was a satellite publishing site for the
Chicago Tribune. In the early 2000s, printing operations were moved to the
Allegan, Michigan, facilities of
The Flashes, a weekly advertising only newspaper that Morris Communications had purchased a few years prior. The paper is now published in Detroit. ==References==