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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Somerville 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 Somerville. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Somerville. Our list contains 90 papers that were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Somerville.

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 Somerville.  

Newspapers Neighboring Somerville ...

The following newspapers were published within 10 miles [16.1 km] of Somerville.

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

  • Published In Weston  ...
    • The Union (from 1856)
  • Published In North Branch  ...
    • The Comet (from 1854)
    • The Weekly Comet (from 1856)
  • Published In Piscataway [Middlesex County] ...
    • Piscataway Review (from 199?)
    • The Chronicle (from 1993)
  • Published In Somerset  ...
  • Published In Harlingen  ...
  • Published In New Brunswick [Middlesex County] ...
    • We know of 72 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of New Brunswick. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for New Brunswick
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> of Somerville. This extended list includes all the papers from New Brunswick. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Somerville
  • Published In Plainfield [Union County] ...

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Somerville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Somerville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5662, Longitude: -74.6037