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It was founded as the weekly Elmira Gazette in 1828 and became an evening daily in 1856. Frank Gannett bought a half-interest in the newspaper in 1906 to begin what would eventually be Gannett Co., Inc. The following year, he merged the Elmira Gazette with a competitor, the Evening Star, to form the Star-Gazette.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise – Saranac Lake; AM New York – New York City; The Buffalo News – Buffalo; The Citizen – Auburn; Columbia Daily Spectator – New York City; The Cornell Daily Sun – Ithaca
Georgetown, originally part of the state of Maryland, was the first populated place in Washington, D.C. The first newspapers appeared in Georgetown, which became an independently municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria (retroceeded to Virginia in 1846), [4] and the newly created County of Washington and County of ...
Wicked Local Plymouth with News from the Old Colony Memorial (published by GateHouse Media of Perinton, New York) Massachusetts State Library. Photos of Old Colony Memorial (May 4, 1822), v.1, no.1: page 1 and page 3
The rain stopped about a half-hour before the 11,875-pound ball, covered with 2,688 crystal triangles and 32,256 LEDs, dropped from One Times Square — a tradition dating back to 1907.
The Standard-Times formed from the 1934 merger of The New Bedford Standard and The New Bedford Times. [5] The Standard had been in operation since being founded as an evening newspaper in 1850. [6] The Cape Cod Times was originally known as The Cape Cod Standard-Times, an edition of the New Bedford paper. It split off in the 1970s.
Times Square, specifically the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street, is the eastern terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States for motorized vehicles. [13] Times Square is sometimes referred to as "the Crossroads of the World" [14] and "the heart of the Great White Way". [15] [16] [17]
On April 20, 2009, the Post-Star won its first Pulitzer Prize, for the editorial work of Mark Mahoney. [3] [4] For a time, the Post-Star maintained two distinctly different online presences. PostStar.net was an all-inclusive, subscription-based offering; Poststar.com offers the reader a few free articles per month, requiring a subscription ...