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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Tabloid |
Owner(s) | Multiple, employee owned |
Publisher | Tracy Davis Pierce |
Editor | Joseph Gresser |
Founded | 1974 |
Headquarters | Barton, Orleans, Vermont |
Website | bartonchronicle |
The Chronicle is a weekly newspaper published in Barton, Vermont. Circulation was 8,500 in 1998. [1] The paper had 260 original subscribers in 1974 and this figure grew to 7500 by the time the paper was sold to a group of employees in 2015. [2] [3]
The Chronicle was founded in 1974 by Chris and Ellen Braithwaite, and their partner, Edward Cowan, a Washington reporter with the New York Times . [4] The paper was started with a $500 investment by Cowan, who was a silent partner in the paper until 1977 when the Braithwaites became the only owners. [4] [3] The Barton Chronicle was initially published out of the Braithwaites' farmhouse, which at the time relied exclusively on wood heat and had no running water.[ citation needed ] The paper moved to rented quarters on Upper Main Street in Barton in the spring of 1974, then into a farmhouse in West Glover the Braithwaites purchased in 1975 from the paper's star columnist, Loudon Young, for $10,000.[ citation needed ] The paper gradually added staff and readers, and gradually became "The Weekly Journal of Orleans County," which has a population of about 27,000 in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. In 2015 the Braithwaites sold the newspaper to a group of its employees, who continue to publish it as a tabloid community newspaper. [2]
The Barton Chronicle has a website where some content is behind a paywall. The paper also has a presence on social media.
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