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By John Shaffer 8:21 AM History Time to shift: Historic clock moves from Virginia Beach to Tennessee as jeweler and heir refocuses her life Hardy's Jewellers clock in Virginia Beach, which dates back to 1884, is being gifted to a onetime protégé of George Hardy.

The Daily Press has been in publication since 1896, with its main office in Newport News.

Former parent company Tribune Co., now Tribune Media, bought the Daily Press Inc. for $200 million in 1986.

Sonny Dearth is a native of Newport News and has worked at the Daily Press since 1989.

He joined The Pilot in 1999 after writing for The (Ind.) Journal-Gazette.

Landmark Media Enterpises, previously known as Landmark Communications Inc., was put up for sale in 2008 and while The Weather Channel sold, the company was taken off the market after the recession and instead has been sold in different pieces gradually, Batten said.

He grew up in Hampton Roads and joined the staff in 2012 after working as a sports clerk at the Daily Press.

Landmark sold The Roanoke Times and The News & Record in Greensboro, N.C., to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in 2013.

Landmark sold its Maryland publications to the Baltimore Sun Media Group, which is part of Tronc, in 2014.

She got her start at the paper as a breaking news reporter in 2018.

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She joined the paper in 2021 after graduating from the University of Virginia.