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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Old Town.

Our newspaper information for Old Town is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

The following list contains the names of 8 papers that were published in the immediate area of Old Town. In addition, the list contains another 101 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Old Town. In total, we've identified 109 papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Old Town.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Old Town.  

Newspapers Published In Old Town ...

We know of 8 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Old Town:

Newspapers Neighboring Old Town ...

The following newspapers were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Old Town.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Old Town.

  • Published In Orono  ...
    • Orono News (from 1941)
    • Orono Observer (from 1993)
    • The Cadet (from 1885)
    • The Maine Campus (from 1904)
    • The Orono Observer (from 1948)
    • The Out-Post (from 19??)
    • Wabanaki Alliance (from 1977)
  • Published In Glenburn  ...
  • Published In Bangor  ...
    • We know of 88 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Bangor. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Bangor
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of Old Town. This extended list includes all the papers from Bangor. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Old Town
  • Published In Brewer  ...
    • New England Coastal News (from 19??)
    • New England Fisherman (from 19??)
    • The Item (from 1933)
      • Years of publication:  1933 to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Item
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN97069017
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 38245083
  • Published In Kenduskeag  ...
  • Published In Bradford  ...
  • Published In Hampden Highlands  ...
    • The New Observer (from 197?)
    • The Observer (from 1958)
  • Published In Hampden  ...
  • Published In East Corinth  ...
    • The Corinth Advance (from 188?)
  • Published In Winterport [Waldo County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old Town) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9342, Longitude: -68.6453       In this case, the coordinates for Old Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).