Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Angelo Lynn |
Publisher | Polly Lynn and Jason Mikula |
Editor | Polly Lynn |
Founded | 1971 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Killington, VT |
Circulation | 10,000 |
OCLC number | 44437619 |
Website | http://mountaintimes.info/ |
The Mountain Times is an American newspaper serving Killington, Vermont.
The Times It is published each Wednesday and has a circulation of over 10,000. [1] The paper is owned by Angelo Lynn and run by Polly and Jason Mikula. The newspaper covers Killington and surrounding towns in Rutland and Windsor Counties. [2] [3] The current editor is Polly Lynn Mikula. [2]
The paper was founded in 1971 by Ed Pickett as Killington Pico-Paper. [4] Pickett, an advertising manager for the Mount Snow Ski Resort, [5] also published Ski Racer and Snow Valley News. [6] In 1976, Pickett sold the paper to Andrew Neisner, who changed the name to The Mountain Times. [1] [4]
In 1986, Royal and Zip Barnard bought The Mountain Times. [7] They operated it for twenty-five years before selling it in 2011, along with eight other local newspapers, to the Lynn family. [8] The sale of the paper in 2011 was delayed by significant flooding in Vermont from Tropical Storm Irene. [9] The basement of the paper's printing office was damaged in the flood, but then-publisher Royal Barnard managed to publish an issue from his home that week. [9]
Under the new management, the paper increased revenue by 15% by 2013. [3]
The Mountain Times was the first to report about a proposal for Killington to secede from Vermont and join New Hampshire in 2004. [10]
Year | Award | Place | Recipient |
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2016 [11] | Most Creative Use of Small Print Space | 1st | The Mountain Times |
2016 | Digital Product Promotion to Readers | 1st | The Mountain Times |
2016 | Pure Advertising Niche Publication | 2nd | The Mountain Times |
2016 | Local Display Ad (color) | 2nd | The Mountain Times |
2014 [12] | Overall Design and Presentation | 3rd | The Mountain Times |
2014 | Overall Mobile Application | 3rd | The Mountain Times |
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