The Chronicle (Goshen and Chester)

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The Chronicle
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Straus News
EditorRobert Quinn
Founded2001
Website chroniclenewspaper.com

The Chronicle [1] is a weekly newspaper that covers the communities of Chester and Goshen in New York state. [2]

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History

Goshen's Town hall Goshen, NY, town hall.jpg
Goshen's Town hall
Chester's Town hall Chester, NY, town hall.jpg
Chester's Town hall

In 1986, the family of R. Peter Straus sold WMCA (AM), a radio station operating in New York City, [3] and over the following 17 years purchased five newspapers and started three more. (By 2014 they were the publishers of "14 local weeklies across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania" and five in Manhattan. [4] [5] [6] [7] ) The second newspaper they founded was The Chronicle, which began publishing in 2001. [5]

The Chronicle included a local teacher's culinary column, "Rosemary, It's Thyme." [8]

"The identities of two people who posted anonymous comments" on the newspaper's web site was the subject of a 2010 grand jury's subpoena; it was quashed. [2] [9] [10]

In 2014, The Chronicle won a Freedom of Information case for the right "to allow the photocopying of disclosure forms" from the county's government. [11] The concession resulted in "that the county would even post them online." Previously they were told that "while the disclosure forms may be inspected and their contents copied by hand, they could not be photographed or photocopied." [12]

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References

  1. Cecilia Levine (October 5, 2017). "LEGOLAND Will Get Its Water, Sewer Service From Goshen". South Orange Daily Voice. to supply the 521-acre site with said service, The Chronicle reports.
  2. 1 2 Oliver Mackson (February 9, 2010). "Judge tosses subpoena seeking identities of paper's Web site posters". Times Herald-Record .
  3. "Rachel Tofel and Cameron Ferrante". The New York Times . November 2, 2014.
  4. Sydney Ember (March 9, 2014). "Manhattan Community Papers Revamped Under New Editor". The New York Times .
  5. 1 2 "Straus News: Our History" . Retrieved May 31, 2021.
  6. "New Owner for Small N.Y. Papers". The Wall Street Journal .
  7. "Media exec Tom Allon drops mayoral bid". Crain's New York Business . March 18, 2013. In January, Isis Venture Partners sold a number of its weekly neighborhood-focused publications to Straus News.
  8. "Patricia A.B. Wallace, Art Teacher, 68". Sullivan County Democrat . October 29, 2002.
  9. "New York v. The (Chester) Chronicle". Digital Media Law Project . February 23, 2010.
  10. "Straus News wins subpoena case". West Milford Messenger. September 30, 2011.
  11. Pamela Chergotis (June 19, 2014). "County grants right to photocopy financial disclosure forms". The Photo News.
  12. "Ethics board denies Chronicle's request to photocopy disclosure forms". The Chronicle. May 9, 2014.