For eighty years, since its origin, the Old English style of lettering had been used on the nameplate of the Livingston Manor Times. Even when this same weekly newspaper had been published under different titles, such as the Willowemoc Valley Times, The Times and The Ensign, the long familiar font of the nameplate remained the same. This changed in 1963, when the front page of the Times had a different look. The long-familiar nameplate was then changed by the publishers to a more modern, nineteen-sixtyish, style designed by the Batteys themselves.

On January 7, 1971, the Batteys transformed the newspaper once again. The long-used, seven-column broadsheet newspaper was reduced in size, becoming a five-column tabloid. The new size of the newspaper now coincided with the Liberty newspaper which the Batteys had purchased in 1964, the Sullivan County Press. The managing editor of the Liberty newspaper was Edward Townsend, who now, fifty years later, is still in the newspaper business, writing articles and columns for Fred Stabbert’s Sullivan County Democrat.