at Polly's Gourmet Coffee in Long Beach, on August 19, 2013. The paper folded in December 2014. JEFF GRITCHEN, REGISTER FILE PHOTO

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November 2013: Kushner and Spitz buy The Press-Enterprise, a daily paper in Riverside, for $27.25 million. ERIC VILCHIS, FILE PHOTO

April 2014: The Los Angeles Register is launched in April, but folds in September after just five months. Orange County Register Rditor Rob Curley, former Los Angeles Register editor Ron Sylvester and former Freedom Communications president and co-owner Eric Spitz, from left, hold up copies of the first edition of the Los Angeles Register in 2014. BLAINE OHIGASHI, REGISTER FILE PHOTO

1935: Ohio native Raymond Cyrus Hoiles buys the Register. His son, Clarence, takes over business operations and the elder Hoiles takes control of editorial content. Hoilesalso buys the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal, the first of several paper acquisitions. REGISTER FILE PHOTO

1931: The Anaheim Register is launched, but folds amid the Great Depression.

1935: Ohio-native Raymond Cyrus Hoiles buys the Register. His son, Clarence, takes over business operations and the elder Hoiles takes control of editorial content. Hoiles also buys the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal, the first of several paper acquisitions.

1937: Hoiles launches his famously libertarian six-day-a-week column, which is eventually named “Common Ground.”

1939: The Register moves to Sycamore and Sixth streets in downtown Santa Ana, and changes its name to the Santa Ana Register, dropping “Daily” from the flag.

1946: Hoiles buys the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph.

1950: Hoiles launches Freedom Newspapers in Santa Ana with the Register as its flagship.

2004: Freedom partners with two Wall Street