In June 1901, Walter Curtis Westland acquired the
Valley Mirror and the
Sentinel, and then merged the two together to form the
North Ontario News. The printing plant consisted of a Washington hand press and other man-powered machinery in a house on A Street Upland, but within a year a new building was constructed for it. Westland came to California from Michigan where he operated the
Grand Lodge Independent. He died of
consumption on December 1, 1902. His widow Ella L. Westland and their son W.E. Westland then conducted the paper, at some point renamed to
The Upland News'. Three years later he bought out his mother from the
News in December 1910.'''
The News
increased its publication frequency from weekly to semiweekly starting in December 1919. In January 1928, the News
was sold to J.B. Hungerford and his son, John Hungerford, both of Carroll, Iowa. They moved to California to take over management.''' Richard T. Baldwin, of
Albion, Michigan, previously connected with the
Albion Evening Recorder, bought the paper in June 1928. Baldwin sold the paper to Vernon Paine and Harry M. Guy in June 1929. Paine was the paper's advertising manager and Guy previously operated the paper for three months. That September, the
News was expanded again to a semi-weekly. Guy retired in September 1939 and sold his interest to Paine, who later increased the rate of publication from twice to three times a week. Paine acquired the
Ontario Herald from A.Q. Miller in March 1947. He then merged his two papers to form a daily edition published five times a week called the
Daily News-Herald. It was franchise of the
Associated Press. A weekly continued to be published under the
Ontario Herald masthead. In October 1948, Paine sold the
Upland News-Herald A.E. and Helen C. Dickerson of Compton, and Geraldine C. Preston of Santa Monica. In February 1949, W. Patrick McDonald acquired the paper. Three former employees sued him for unpaid wages, but settled out of court. Around that time the federal government placed four
tax liens on McDonald for unpaid taxes. In February 1950, McDonald suspended the
News-Herald and relaunched it as a weekly under the old name. Paine resumed ownership of the
Upland News in July 1950. He operated it for another eight years until it was sold to Mel Hodell in October 1958. Two years later Hodell acquired the
Montclair Tribune. Hodell established the
Cucamonga News in December 1961. He sold his three papers in July 1967 to Bonita Publishing Company, a subsidiary of the
Pomona Progress Bulletin. In 1974, the
Upland News ceased publication, followed by the
Montclair Tribune in 1977. The
Cucamonga News was subsumed by the
Highlander, which discontinued publication in the 1990s. The
News,
Tribune and
Highlander were folded into the
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. ==References and notes==