The Record Observer

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The Record Observer
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Adams Publishing Group
PublisherJim Normandin
EditorAngela Price
Founded1936
Headquarters114 Broadway, Centreville, MD 21617 United States
Circulation 2,876
Website https://www.myeasternshoremd.com/qa/record_observer/


The Record-Observer newspaper serves Centreville, Maryland and is published once a week on Thursdays, with a readership of approximately 5,000, and a 2014 print circulation of 2,876. [1] [2]

History

The newspaper was formed from the 1936 merger of The Centreville Observer and Queen Anne Record. [3] [4]

In the 1930s it was purchased by Leon Asa Andrus. [5] In 1946, Andrus would go on to wage a successful multi-year editorial campaign to get the Chesapeake Bay Bridge built. [6]

In 2014, American Consolidated Media sold The Record Observer to family-owned Adams Publishing Group. [7]

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References

  1. "Queen Anne's County Record-Observer". Mondo Times.
  2. "Record Observer". The Star Democrat. 11 April 2014.
  3. "About Record observer". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  4. "About Queen Anne's record the Centreville observer". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  5. "Andrus, 'Boy Wonder of Wall Street,' dies at 101". The Star Democrat. 22 November 1989.
  6. "Andrus, 'Boy Wonder of Wall Street,' dies at 101 (cont'd)". The Star Democrat. 22 November 1989.
  7. "New Owners, Same Papers". Record Observer. 21 March 2014.