Newspaper Research

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Newspaper collections accessible at the Sandi Thorne Research Center include bound volumes of the Pleasanton Times, digitized copies of the Pleasanton Star, Times, Bulletin, and a few other papers, and microfilm reels of various Pleasanton newspapers including the Pleasanton Times and the Tri-Valley Herald. 

Bound volumes:
Pleasanton Times: 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956-1960, 1962, 1964-71
Valley Times: Nov-Dec 1970

Digitized individual newspapers*:
​Pleasanton Star:
1885: June 6
1887: October 22
Pleasanton Bulletin: 
1897: September 25
1898: January 22, June 18
Pleasanton Times-Bulletin:
1898: October 6, December 24
Pleasanton News:
1932: August 26, September 2, November 3
Pleasanton Times:
1893: January 21
1898: May 26, June 23
1899: August 10
1901: December 21
1903: September 19
1904: November 12
1907: July 13
1908: June 13
1909: July 3
1910: February 5, August 13
1914: May 15, June 26, November 6
1916: December 22
1917: November 24
1918: May 18
1920: January 31
1922: June 16, August 18, September 15, December 29
1923: July 27, August 10, August 17
1924: July 4
1925: October 16
1926: March 26, July 8, August 26, October 7, November 18
1927: February 17, August 11
1929: January 4 through December 27
1930: January 3 through December 24
1931: January 2 through December 24
1932: January 1 through December 30
1933: January 6 through December 29
1934: January 5 through August 3, November 2, November 23
1936: May 1
1937: October 8
1938: January 14, February 4
1940: November 8
1942: February 20
1943: January 1, June 18
1944: July 21
1945: April 6
1948: February 27
1950: February 17, April 14
1953: April 24, October 8 through October 22, December 3 through December 17
1954: January 14 through February 4, March 11
1955: April 21, September 1, September 8, October 27, November 17, December 1

*Not all issues are complete. All files in PDF format.

Microfilm reels:
Pleasanton Times (1890s): 
1890 (October 18); 1894 (January 23, July 21, August 4, August 18, August 25, September 29 through October 13, December 15, December 29); 1895 (January 5, January 12, February 2, February 16, February 23, April 6, April 27, May 4, May 25 through June 15, September 7, September 14)

Pleasanton Times (1970s):
January 1975 through February 1978, January 1979, February 1979, May 1979, June 1979

News (Livermore/Dublin/Pleasanton): March through September 1981, August through October 1982

Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton): October through December 1973, May 1974, July 1974 through February 1975, October 1957 through April 1976, June 1976 through February 1977, May 1977, March 2000 through January 2001, March 2001 through December 2009.

Tri-Valley Herald News (Livermore/Dublin/Pleasanton): January 1974 through September 1975, September 1977 through July 1978, May 1980 through October 1981, August 1982 through September 1983, February 1986 through July 1986, September 1986.

Tri-Valley News (Pleasanton): October through December 1973,  May 1974, July 1974 through February 1975, July 1975 through January 1976, March 1976 through May 1979, July 1979 through January 1981.

Valley Times: September 1973 through January 1974, March 1974 through August 1974, January 1979, February 1979, May 1979 through February 1982, April 1982 through September 1984, November 1984, January 1985 through April 1985, July 1985 through September 1985, November 1985 through November 2001, January 2002 through June 2002, February 2003, March 2003,