Hussman buys NW Arkansas papers

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Walter Hussman Jr., who owns the statewide Democrat-Gazette, announced Friday that he had exercised an option in the alliance agreement to purchase the Times, which serves Fayetteville and Washington County, and the Benton County Daily Record, based in Bentonville, from Community Publishers Inc. The outright purchase also includes the biweekly Siloam Springs Herald Leader and seven weeklies: the Rogers Hometown News, Bella Vista Weekly Vista, Pea Ridge Times of Northeast Benton County, Gentry Courier Journal, Gravette News Herald, Decatur Herald and White River Valley News, which serves the Elkins area.