Las Cruces Bulletin purchased by S.C. company

From The Las Cruces Bulletin - The Las Cruces Bulletin, along with the award-winning newspaper’s affiliated specialty publications, has been acquired by a family-owned media company in South Carolina. OPC News, LLC, owned by members of the Osteen family in Sumter, S.C., purchased the weekly newspaper from David and Jacqueline McCollum of Las Cruces. The sale closed Monday, Nov. 5.
OPC News is owned by three members of the Osteen family, brothers Graham, Kyle and Jack Osteen.
In a statement, the brothers said they were attracted to the Bulletin because of the quality of the Las Cruces community and the paper’s strong brand. “Las Cruces is a great community with a large audience that traditionally loves to read newspapers. David and Jaki have put together a superb organization over the years, and we are thankful they selected us to keep their tradition of newspapering alive,” the brothers said in a statement.
Richard Coltharp, general manager of The Las Cruces Bulletin since 2010, has been named publisher of the newspaper. Coltharp has 27 years of experience at six different newspaper organizations, and has worked in southern New Mexico since 1995. He will report to Larry Miller, chief executive officer of Osteen Publishing Co., Inc., and OPC News. Miller works out of his office in South Carolina and will be in the New Mexico market frequently. An Oklahoma native, Miller has 35 years of experience at newspapers throughout the country, and has been associated with Osteen Publishing since 2007. Read more

Las Cruces Bulletin purchased by S.C. company