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Lakes Region News Club
Country News Club, Inc. and Lakes Region News Club, Inc. are private companies that publish community newspapers in New Hampshire, United States. A third company, Portland News Club, LLC, was also affiliated with the group, but shuttered its only publication in 2019. Properties The companies publish three ''Daily Sun'' free daily newspapers: * ''The Conway Daily Sun'' (Country News Club), founded in 1989, in Conway, New Hampshire. * ''The Berlin Daily Sun'' (Country News Club), founded in 1992, in Berlin, New Hampshire. * ''The Laconia Daily Sun'' (Lakes Region News Club), founded in 2000, in Laconia, New Hampshire Country News Club also publishes a weekly newspaper in western Maine, '' The Northern Light'', in addition to ''Valley Fun'', a tourist publication. From 2009 until 2014, Portland News Club published ''The Portland Daily Sun'' in Portland, Maine. The ''Portland Daily Sun'' shuttered in 2014 after the group acquired the ''Portland Phoenix'', which continued in print u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Hampshire
New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 U.S. states, New Hampshire is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, seventh-smallest by land area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, tenth-least populous, with a population of 1,377,529 residents as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Concord, New Hampshire, Concord is the List of capitals in the United States, state capital and Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester is the List of municipalities in New Hampshire, most populous city. New Hampshire's List of U.S. state mottos, motto, "Live Free or Die", reflects its role in the American Revolutionary War; its state nickname, nickname, "The Granite State", refers to its ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portland Daily Sun
''The Portland Daily Sun'' was a free newspaper that was distributed to retail and business locations in Portland, Maine between 2009 and 2014. History The paper was founded in 2009 by Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan of Country News Club, in partnership with Curtis Robinson, who served as founding editor. Its first edition was printed February 3, 2009. Circulation, which started at 3,000 copies, quickly rose to 15,000. It published five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday. In 2012, the newspaper moved its offices to the Time and Temperature Building in downtown Portland. At the time, publisher Mark Guerringue said ''The Portland Daily Sun'' was not yet profitable, but "We're poised for it, the pieces are in place". In 2013, the newspaper decreased its publication days from five to only two per week (Tuesdays and Fridays), citing a lack of advertisers. The Portland Daily Sun published its final issue on December 23, 2014. Columnists and contributors ''The Sun'' featured loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carroll County, New Hampshire
Carroll County is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,107, making it the third-least populous county in New Hampshire. Its county seat is Ossipee. The county was created in 1840 and organized at Ossipee from towns removed from Strafford County. It was named in honor of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who had died in 1832, the last surviving signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (6.2%) is water. It is the third-largest county in New Hampshire by total area. Northern Carroll County is known for being mountainous. Several ski areas, including Cranmore Mountain, Attitash, King Pine, and Black Mountain, are located here. A salient along the northwestern margin of the county runs through Crawford Notch; the northern portion of the salient is within Crawford Notch State Park. Adjacent counties * Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vail, Colorado
Vail is a Home rule in the United States, home rule municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The population of the town was 4,835 in 2020. Home to Vail Ski Resort, the largest ski mountain in Colorado, the town is known for its hotels, dining, and for the numerous events the city hosts annually, such as the Vail Film Festival, Vail Resorts Snow Days, and Bravo! Vail. History Vail was incorporated in 1966, four years after the opening of Vail Ski Resort. The Ski resort, ski area was founded by Pete Seibert and local rancher Earl Eaton in 1962, at the base of Vail Pass. The pass was named after Charles Vail, the highway engineer who routed U.S. Route 6 in Colorado, U.S. Highway 6 through the Eagle Valley in 1940, which eventually became Interstate 70 in Colorado, Interstate 70. Seibert, a New England native, served in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division (United States), 10th Mountain Division during World War II, which trained at Camp Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen is the List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city that is the county seat and the List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,004 at the 2020 United States census. Aspen is in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains' Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains (Colorado), Elk Mountains, along the Roaring Fork River at an elevation just below on the Western Slope of Colorado, Western Slope, west of the Continental Divide. Aspen is now a part of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Founded as a mining camp during the Colorado Silver Boom and later named Aspen for the abundance of aspen trees in the area, the city boomtown, boomed during the 1880s, its first decade. The boom ended when the Panic of 1893 led to a collapse of the silver market. For the next half-century, known as "the quiet years", the population steadily declined, reaching a nadir of few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portsmouth Herald
''The Portsmouth Herald'' (and ''Seacoast Weekend'') is a six-day daily newspaper serving greater Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Its coverage area also includes the municipalities of Greenland, New Castle, Newington and Rye, New Hampshire; and Eliot, Kittery, Kittery Point and South Berwick, Maine. Unlike most New England daily newspapers, ''The Herald'' circulation grew in the 2000s. Its editors in 2001 credited the newspaper's resurgence with the introduction of the "Wow! factor" -- front-page stories on controversial or sensational topics that appeal to younger readers. Founding ''The Portsmouth Herald'' considers its foundation date to be September 23, 1884, the day that its predecessor ''The Penny Post'' first appeared in Portsmouth. ''The Penny Post'' (named for its newsstand price) within two years was claiming to have the largest circulation base in New England. The ''Post'' adopted the name ''Portsmouth Herald'' in mid-1897, and cost 2 cents per issue. Traced bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seacoast Media Group
Seacoast Media Group is a unit of Local Media Group. Seacoast publishes five weekly newspapers and one daily, ''The Portsmouth Herald'', along the coasts of New Hampshire and York County, Maine, United States. The group publisher is John Tabor; its executive editor is Howard Altschiller. On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former ''Wall Street Journal'' editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. Seacoast's newspapers The information in these profiles is based on thSMG 2007 Reta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census it had a population of 21,956. A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination on the Piscataqua River bordering the state of Maine, Portsmouth was formerly the home of the Strategic Air Command's Pease Air Force Base, since converted to Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. History Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indians of the Abenaki and other Algonquian languages-speaking nations, and their predecessors, inhabited the territory of coastal New Hampshire for thousands of years before European contact. The first known European to explore and write about the area was Martin Pring in 1603. The Piscataqua River is a tidal estuary with a swift current, but forms a good natural harbor. The west bank of the harbor was settled by European colonists in 1630 and named Strawbery Banke, after the many wild Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phoenix (newspaper)
''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the now defunct ''Boston Phoenix'', ''Providence Phoenix'', ''Portland Phoenix'', and ''Worcester Phoenix''. These publications emphasized local arts and entertainment coverage as well as lifestyle and political coverage. The ''Portland Phoenix'', which folded in 2019, was revived a few months later by another company, New Portland Publishing. The newspaper closed in 2023. The papers, like most alternative weeklies, are somewhat similar in format and editorial content to ''The Village Voice''. History Origin ''The Phoenix'' was founded in 1965 by Joe Hanlon, a former editor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student newspaper, '' The Tech''. Since many Boston-area college newspapers were printed at the same printing firm, Hanlon's idea was to do a four-page sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Maine
Portland is the List of municipalities in Maine, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat, seat of Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 at the 2020 census. The Portland metropolitan area, Maine, Greater Portland metropolitan area has a population of approximately 550,000 people. Historically tied to commercial shipping, the marine economy, and light industry, Portland's economy in the 21st century relies mostly on the service sector. The Port of Portland (Maine), Port of Portland is the second-largest tonnage seaport in the New England area as of 2019. The city seal depicts a Phoenix (mythology), phoenix rising from ashes, a reference to Portland's recovery from four devastating fires. Portland was named after the English Isle of Portland. In turn, the city of Portland, Oregon, was named after Portland, Maine. The word ''Portland'' is derived from the Old English word ''Portlanda'', which means "land surrounding a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Northern Light (Maine)
''The Northern Light'' is a weekly newspaper covering parts of three counties in western Maine. It is published by Country News Club, Inc., which also publishes ''The Conway Daily Sun'' of Conway and ''The Berlin Daily Sun'' of Berlin, both in New Hampshire New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t .... The weekly newspaper circulates in the towns of Bridgton, Maine, Bridgton, Brownfield, Maine, Brownfield, Cornish, Maine, Cornish, Denmark, Maine, Denmark, Fryeburg, Maine, Fryeburg, Harrison, Maine, Harrison, Hiram, Maine, Hiram, Lovell, Maine, Lovell, Parsonsfield, Maine, Parsonsfield and Porter, Maine. Its coverage area includes portions of Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland, Oxford County, Maine, Oxford and York County, Maine, York counties. References Newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Press Herald
The ''Portland Press Herald'' (abbreviated as ''PPH''; Sunday edition ''Maine Sunday Telegram'') is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine, with a statewide readership. The ''Press Herald'' mainly serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area of Portland. Founded in 1862, its roots extend to Maine’s earliest newspapers, the ''Falmouth Gazette & Weekly Advertiser'', started in 1785, and the '' Eastern Argus'', first published in Portland in 1803. For most of the 20th century, it was the cornerstone of Guy Gannett Communications, before being sold to The Seattle Times Company in 1998. Since 2023, it has been a part of the Maine Trust for Local News, a nonprofit group run by the National Trust for Local News that includes four other daily newspapers and 17 weekly newspapers. History 19th century origins The ''Portland Daily Press'' was founded in June 1862 by J. T. Gilman, Joseph B. Hall, and Newell A. Foster as a new Republican p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
