Country News Club

Country News Club, Inc., Lakes Region News Club, Inc., and Portland News Club, LLC, and are private companies that publish community newspapers in Maine and New Hampshire, USA.

Properties

The companies publish four Daily Sun free daily newspapers:

Country News Club also publishes a weekly newspaper in western Maine, The Northern Light, in addition to Valley Fun, a tourist publication.

Each of the company's newspapers has a local newsroom in the community it covers, though all Country News Club publications, as well as The Portland Daily Sun, are printed in the company's Conway press plant.

The Laconia Daily Sun is printed at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire presses of Seacoast Media Group, which also publishes The Portsmouth Herald.

Personnel

Country News Club and its daily newspapers were founded by Dave Danforth, Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan, the latter two of whom were still on the Conway and Berlin papers' mastheads, as of early 2012, as publisher and editor, respectively.[1]

Guerringue and Hirshan partnered with Edward J. Engler to found Lakes Region News Club and The Laconia Daily Sun. In 2012 Engler remained publisher-editor of the Laconia paper.

The Portland paper was begun in February 2009 as a joint effort of Guerringue, Hirsham and Curtis Robinson, a veteran of free daily newspapers in Aspen and Vail, Colorado, who served as The Portland Daily Sun's first editor.[2] As of 2012, Robinson had left the paper and Guerringue was serving as publisher.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Mastheads of the February 10, 2012, editions of The Berlin Daily Sun (p. 4) and The Conway Daily Sun (p. 6).
  2. ↑ Davis, Clyde (January 6, 2009). "Free Daily Planned for Portland, Maine". Free-Daily.com. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Daily Sun moves to Time & Temperature building". The Portland Daily Sun (Portland, Maine). February 8, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
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