The Bryan Times

The Bryan Times is a daily newspaper based in Bryan, Ohio.^[1][2][3][4]

The Bryan Times came into being on Feb. 2, 1949, as a result of a merger of The Bryan Democrat and The Bryan Press, and on Sept. 12, 1949 it became a daily newspaper delivered six day per week, Monday through Saturday. The Bryan Press, a weekly newspaper, had its roots in the Republican Standard of 1854 and the twice weekly Bryan Democrat which began in 1863. The Bryan Democrat held its name through 1949 while the forerunners of The Bryan Press went through a series of name changes until 1869 when it became The Bryan Press. In 1923 Cass Cullis came to Bryan when he purchased The Bryan Democrat. Cullis had owned newspapers in Fayette, Ohio, Swanton, Ohio and Buchannan, Mich. before purchasing The Bryan Democrat. Following WWII Cass Sullis' son, Ford Cullis joined his father in operating the newspaper. According to the later Ford Cullis, one of the co-founders of The Bryan Times, it was evident that Bryan needed a daily newspaper, but WWII held up the change. The Bryan Times became the 100th daily newspaper in Ohio. New equipment was difficult to get, repairs and repair parts were frequently impossible to get, newsprint was scarce, and skilled help was difficult to find and equally difficult to get. By the early part of 1948, The Democrat was able to find used equipment in satisfactory condition. The shop had three Linotypes and automatic typesetting equipment was available. The real need for the newspaper in 1948 was a press to replace the slow moving Babcock The Democrat was using. This press had a separate folder, requiring hours of extra work. The choice was a Goss Comet purchased form the Celina Daily Standard owned by the Snyder family. It printed and folded 3,000 copies per hour. It was this press that made a daily newspaper possible. In 1949 The Bryan Times was located at 108 E. Butler St. in Bryan. That building was small and soon became inconvenient since the shop equipment was on the upper floor and the press was in the basement. In 1958 Ford Cullis bought the property at 121 - 127 South Walnut St. where the current offices are located. Plans were made for the new building. The pressroom, with a new to The Bryan Times press, a rotary press purchased from The Defiance Crescent News was built in 1961 and the entire operation was moved to its new location in October 1962. By 1963 The Bryan Times had doubled its circulation to 6,000 and had begun to move its circulation base out inot the entire area of Williams County. In 1968 The Times purchased a 1968 Goss Community offset press. This press was used until the printing of The Bryan Times was outsourced to Fort Wayne Newspapers in March 2015. Cass Cullis was the co-publisher of The Bryan Times from 1949 until his death 1980 and Ford Cullis was co-publisher until his death in 2008. Christopher Cullis joined The Timesin June 1981 as the assistant publisher and became co-publisher in 1992. Following his father's death in 2008 Christopher Cullis became the sole publisher. In 2010 Kim Cullis Imm joined her father as the assistant publisher bring The Bryan Times into its fourth generation of management. The Bryan Times is owned by The Bryan Publishing Company. In addition to The Times The Bryan Publishing Company also publishes the daily Napoleon Northwest Signal, the weekly Montpelier Leader Enterprise, free distribution twice monthly Countyline and monthly real estate magazine Realty Northwest. ^[5]

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