They became mayors and business owners, martial arts experts and police officers. And they all got their cold, snowy rainy, dog-snarling, fourth-floor-climbing, ultimately (mostly) rewarding starts delivering the local newspaper.
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Posted inMark LaFlamme
Street Talk: A song of ink and paper
On those nights of really big news, you waited around for the paper to come sliding off the press, and to hell with dinner or whatever you’d had planned that night.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Historic newspapers found in Norway attic returned to Skowhegan
SKOWHEGAN — Bundles of old newspapers, some from the 1800s, have been returned to Skowhegan, where they were published, after untold decades in the attic of a western Maine newspaper. Copies of the Skowhegan Somerset Reporter, the Independent-Reporter, the Madison Bulletin, the Waterville Morning Sentinel and others now sit in a garage on Elm Street, […]
Posted inBusiness, sj-web
Trade panel nullifies newsprint tariffs
WASHINGTON — The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday nullified tariffs put into place for imported newsprint by finding that American producers weren’t harmed by imports from Canadian paper mills. The ruling is a victory for the U.S newspaper industry, which complained that the rising cost of newsprint, typically their second-biggest expense, made it harder […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Editorial was effective
As a summer resident of Maine for almost a half-century now, I have come to greatly appreciate the quality of reporting in the Sun Journal. I have never been more impressed with that quality than in the almost full page editorial on Aug. 16. The Sun Journal joined publications across this country, each speaking in […]
Posted inMaine, News
Owner of Press Herald, Sun Journal buys Ellsworth American, Mount Desert Islander
Reade Brower, who already owns six of Maine’s seven daily newspapers and many more weeklies, has purchased two additional weekly papers in Hancock County. The Ellsworth American reported Wednesday that Brower, of Rockland, purchased that paper and its sister paper, the Mount Desert Islander, from longtime owner Alan Baker. Details of the sale, which closes on Aug. […]
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Wanted: Your story
Do you use public notices? Would you be willing to share your thoughts on how they help you in your personal or professional life? The Maine Press Association, which oversees the state’s public notices system at mainenotices.com, would like to know how you benefit from them and what we can do to make them even more […]
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Sun Journal owner Reade Brower to buy 2 more Maine daily newspapers
Reade Brower, the owner of four of Maine’s seven daily newspapers, announced Friday morning he will purchase two more, the Times Record of Brunswick and the Journal Tribune of Biddeford, as well as the Mainely Media weekly publications. The publications are owned by George Sample and his Sample News Group of Pennsylvania. Once acquired, the […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Your newspaper might be late Wednesday
Dear Sun Journal subscriber: Because of the timing of the snowstorm, please be patient with your delivery carrier Wednesday morning as his or her safety is our top priority. Should you wish to read Wednesday’s newspaper in our eEdition format (just like the printed copy), please visit www.sunjournal.com. For help accessing your account, call 207-784-3555, […]
Posted inMaine
Paul LePage says legal notice bill props up ‘dying, antiquated industry’
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Republican governor says requiring legal notices to be printed in newspapers “props up a dying, antiquated industry.” Gov. Paul LePage is no fan of Maine newspapers, and has said journalists use words to destroy people. State legislators on Thursday overrode LePage’s veto of a bill that requires the continued posting of newspaper legal notices […]