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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. [1] For most of the 20th century, it was the ...
0747-1300. OCLC number. 10561177. Website. timesrecord.com. The Times Record (also known as the Bath-Brunswick Times Record) [2] is an independently-owned daily newspaper published five days a week that covers the Midcoast region of Maine. Operating out of Brunswick, it was founded in 1967 as a result of a merger between two historic newspapers ...
Guy Gannett Communications was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States.The company was founded by its namesake, Guy P. Gannett, in 1921, and was managed by a family trust from 1954 to 1998, when it sold most of its properties to The Seattle Times Company and Sinclair Broadcast Group.
The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [2] This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman, launched in Oregon City in March 1851. [2]
The last front page of the Evening Express, printed February 1, 1991. The Evening Express was an American daily evening broadsheet -format newspaper published in Portland, Maine. Founded in 1882, it was owned by Guy Gannett Publishing Co. from 1925 until 1991. As of February 1991, the Monday through Saturday average circulation was 22,700.
Years of service. 1953–1955. Joseph Edward Brennan (November 2, 1934 – April 6, 2024) was an American lawyer and politician from Maine. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987 and in the United States House of Representatives for Maine's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1991. [1]
Skoglund was born on January 8, 1936, in St. George, Maine to Swedish immigrants. [1][2] His ancestors settled in the same area in 1734. [3] He was the only student to receive a college degree in his Rockland, Maine high school class. Skoglund learned to play several instruments and mastered a half dozen languages. [1]
MaineToday Media. MaineToday Media, Inc. (abbreviated as MTM) was a privately owned news publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Maine, based in the state's largest city, Portland. It included the Portland Press Herald, the state's largest newspaper. In 2023, the group was sold to the nonprofit National Trust for Local ...