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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Penobscot.

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

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of West Penobscot. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Penobscot. Our list contains 60 papers that were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of West Penobscot.

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 West Penobscot.  

Newspapers Neighboring West Penobscot ...

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km] of West Penobscot.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Penobscot) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Penobscot. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4743, Longitude: -68.7794