Meredith News

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Meredith News
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
OwnerSalmon Press
EditorErin Plummer
Founded1880
Headquarters5 Water Street, Meredith, New Hampshire 03253 United States
Circulation 3,000(as of 2018)
Website newhampshirelakesandmountains.com

The Meredith News is a weekly newspaper published in Belknap County, New Hampshire. The newspaper has about 3,000 subscribers across the towns of Meredith, Center Harbor, Sandwich, and Moultonborough, and the city of Laconia. [1] [2] It is owned by Salmon Press LLC. [3]

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History

The first issue was published on July 22, 1880, as the Meredith Weekly News. [4] The publisher George F. Sanborn ran the paper from an office on the second floor of his family home. In 1882, Sanborn started an initiative to build a free public library. At the time, most libraries in the state were "private" libraries that only benefited paying members. [5] The library was implemented in the Sanborn home next to the Meredith News office. [6]

One of Meredith's most prominent residents was Bob Montana, a famous cartoonist known best for illustrating the first Archie comics. Montana was good friends with editor Leo Kershaw of the News, and starting in 1947 Archie comic strips became a regular feature in the Meredith newspaper. Each feature was proudly titled "Archie... By Meredith's Bob Montana". [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Database". gotoanr.com. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Salmon Press circulation by title". Salmon Press. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ Editor & Publisher International Yearbook 2005: Weeklies. Editor & Pub. 2005. p. 175. ISBN   9781930732278.
  4. ↑ History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire. J. W. Lewis & Company. 1885. pp.  853-854. Meredith weekly News.
  5. ↑ "About Us, New Hampshire State Library". www.nh.gov. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Heyduk, Daniel (March 16, 2015). Meredith Chronicles: Passing Time on Lake Winnipesaukee. Arcadia Publishing. p. 100. ISBN   9781625852892.
  7. ↑ Anderson, Carol Lee (October 1, 2013). The New England Life of Cartoonist Bob Montana: Beyond the Archie Comic Strip. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   9781625840233.
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