Former 'Journal and Courier' Publisher Richard L. Holtz Dies

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(AP) Richard L. Holtz, who was publisher of the Journal and Courier in Lafayette, Ind., for 12 years, died Wednesday following a battle with esophagus cancer. He was 65.

Holtz was the Journal and Courier's publisher twice, from 1986 to 1988, and from 1990 to 1999, when he retired.

Holtz grew up and began his newspaper career in Ohio and later worked at papers from Vermont to California.

Arvid Olson, who was the Lafayette newspaper's marketing development director for seven years, said Holtz's return to Lafayette in 1990 was a Gannett Co. Inc. reward for a job well done as publisher of the Stockton (Calif.) Record from 1988 to 1990.

Holtz retired in 1999.