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The Weekly Packet is a weekly newspaper serving Maine's Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Sedgwick, and Surry communities. [1] It was founded by Jerry Durnbaugh, an Indiana transplant to Maine, in 1960, and later purchased by Nat Barrows of Penobscot Bay Press in 1981. [2]
Hopewell News: Hopewell: 1926 2018 Began as City and Tri-County News: King George Journal Press: King George: 2017 Ledger-Star: Norfolk 1876 [14] 1995 [20] Began as Public Ledger, became Ledger-Star in 1962 News & Messenger: Manassas: Northern Virginia Sun: Arlington: 1998 Port Folio Weekly: Norfolk: 1983 2009 Religious Herald: Richmond: 1828 ...
The Daily Press published its first edition on January 4, 1896, just 12 days before the General Assembly declared Newport News a city on January 16, 1896. Charles E. Thacker owned and edited the paper from a small printing shop in the basement of the First National Bank at 28th Street and Washington Avenue.
Newport News / Tidewater: The National Newport News & Commentator: 1986 [75] 1993 [75] Bimonthly newspaper [75] OCLC 20869168, 22443372; Virginia Beach: The Answer: 1982 [76] 1900s [76] LCCN sn2001062403; OCLC 46403226; Billed as "[t]he progressive newspaper for the progressive citizen." [76] Published by E. George Minns [76] Waverly: Pioneer ...
The bay was the site of a humiliating American defeat during the Revolutionary War.In 1779 a Continental Navy flotilla consisting of 19 warships and 25 support vessels was dispatched on July 24 to recapture the mid-coast of Maine from the British who had captured part of the territory and constructed fortifications near the bay, naming the newly captured territory New Ireland.
Christopher Clough, Green Bay Press-Gazette. November 29, 2024 at 7:04 AM. ... FOR MORE DOOR COUNTY NEWS: Check out our website. This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: ...
In 1958, the citizenry of the cities of Warwick and Newport News voted by referendum to consolidate the two cities, choosing to assume the better-known name of Newport News, and forming the third largest city population-wise in Virginia with a 65 square miles (168 km 2) area. The boundaries of the city of Newport News today are essentially the ...
It provided Bangor with shipping access to Penobscot Bay during winter months when the Penobscot River froze. [11] The Maine Seaboard Paper Company in 1930 opened the Bucksport Mill, a paper mill with two machines which manufactured 300 tons of newsprint per day.