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''Good Times'' is a free-circulation weekly newspaper based in Santa Cruz, California. ''Good Times'' is distributed in Santa Cruz County, a coastal area that includes Capitola, Rio del Mar, Aptos and Watsonville. It is owned by the Northern California-based Metro Newspapers. Dan Pulcrano is the CEO and executive editor. ==History== ''Good Times'' was founded in 1975 by Jay Shore, who remained its owner/operator and editor for 13 years. Shore established ''Good Times'' amidst a proliferation in the 1970s of short-lived free counterculture newspapers in Santa Cruz County that included ''The Free Spaghetti Dinner'', ''Sundaz!'', ''Santa Cruz Times'', ''People’s Press'' and the ''Santa Cruz Independent''. In 1988, Shore sold the paper to Independent Newspapers of New Zealand, part of Rupert Murdoch’s group of holdings, a year before much of downtown Santa Cruz was destroyed in the Loma Prieta earthquake. In 1998, Independent Newspapers sold ''Good Times'' to Central Valley Publishing, later renamed Pacific-Sierra Publishing.〔( Murdoch Era Ends at Good Times )〕 In 2003, Pacific-Sierra head Anthony Allegretti lead a buyout to form a new company, MainStreet Media Group.〔(Management Buyout Leads to New Company )〕 In 2014, New England-based Brookside Capital sold ''Good Times.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brookside Group-backed MainStreet Media sells four weeklies )〕 to Metro Newspapers, which owned the competing ''Santa Cruz Weekly'', returning the publication to local ownership for the first time since the 1980s. The ''Santa Cruz Weekly'', which began as ''Metro Santa Cruz'' in 1994, combined operations with ''Good Times'' following the purchase. 〔(Metro Newspapers buys weeklies in Santa Cruz, Gilroy, Morgan Hill and Hollister )〕 On the eve of the sale, former ''Good Times'' publisher Ron Slack complained about the lack of investment in the product by its former owners, saying ''Good Times'' didn't get much support from its corporate parent in upgrades in equipment and software. ''Good Times'' was an active sponsor with Tom Schot in presenting disc sports to Californians by way of the 1978 Santa Cruz Flying Disc Classic and the Santa Cruz Good Times Ultimate Team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.discgolfhalloffame.org/tom-schot/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Good Times (newspaper)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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