The Reflector purchased by Centralia publisher

After 100 years of local ownership, Battle Ground’s Reflector newspaper will soon become the property of a company 80 miles to the north.

On July 1, owners Marvin and Anne Case will turn the Reflector over to Lafromboise Communications Inc., which owns The Chronicle, a Centralia daily, and Nisqually Valley News, a Yelm-based weekly.

Terms of the sale of Case Publishing Inc., which owns The Reflector, were not disclosed.

The two-section Reflector, headquartered at 20 S.W. 20th Ave. in Battle Ground, shows up free on 26,500 doorsteps in north Clark County each week.

First published by Kelley Loe on Oct. 8, 1909, The Reflector was based in Ridgefield until Jack Dodge bought it in 1949 and moved it to Battle Ground.

Marvin Case purchased the paper for about $100,000 in 1980. In February he became its longest-tenured publisher.

He plans to write about the transaction and the new owners in the June 30 issue of The Reflector.