Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Penn.
Our newspaper information for West Penn 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 Penn. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Penn. Our list contains 84 papers that were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of West Penn.
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 Penn.
Newspapers Neighboring West Penn ...
The following newspapers were published within 13 miles [20.9 km] of West Penn.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from West Penn.
- Published In Tamaqua ...
- Tamaqua Daily Item (from 1873)
- Tamaqua Gazette (from 1855)
- Tamaqua Recorder (from 1891)
- The Anthracite Monitor (from 1871)
- The Evening Call (from 1914)
- The Evening Courier (from 1900)
- The Tamaqua Courier (from 187?)
- The Tamaqua Paper (from 1975)
- Published In Lansford [Carbon County] ...
- Midweeker (from 1983)
- Years of publication: 1983 to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Midweeker
- Holdings for: LCCN SN87078545
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 17060486
- The Gazette (from 1974)
- The Good News Gazette (from 1976)
- The Lansford Leader (from 1893)
- The Valley Gazette (from 1972)
- The Weekly Gazette (from 1973)
- Published In Kempton [Berks County] ...
- The Kempton Rural Press (from 1887)
- Published In Orwigsburg ...
- Christlicher Kundschafter (from 1869)
- Daily News (from 1889)
- Die Demokratische Freyheits Presse (from 1835)
- Die Freyheits-Presse (from 1820)
- Die Stimme Des Volks, Und Allgemeiner Bekanntmacher (from 1832)
- Orwigsburg News (from 1889)
- Orwigsburg Times (from 1875)
- The Herald Of Freedom, And Clay, Frelinghuysen & Markle Straightout Champion (from 18??)
- Published In Mahanoy City ...
- Parker's Tri-Weekly Record (from 1877)
- Saule = The Sun (from 18??)
- The Mahanoy Press (from 1922)
- The Mahanoy Valley Record (from 1871)
- The Record American (from 1918)
- The Tri-Weekly Record (from 18??)
- Wednesday Mahanoy Gazette (from 1865)
- Published In McAdoo ...
- McAdoo Eagle (from 193?)
- The McAdoo Siftings (from 1896)
- The Town Democrat (from 1945)
- Published In New Tripoli [Lehigh County] ...
- The Youth's Blade (from 18??)
- Published In Port Carbon ...
- Port Carbon Gazette, And Schuylkill County Advocate (from 1831)
- Published In Summit Hill [Carbon County] ...
- The Weekly Intelligencer (from 1873)
- Published In Hamburg [Berks County] ...
- Hamburg Advertiser (from 1863)
- Hamburg Berichter (from 1871)
- Hamburg Dispatch (from 1893)
- Hamburger Schnellpost Und Allgemeiner Demokratischer Anzeiger (from 18??)
- Hamburger Schnellpost Und Allgemeiner Deutscher Anzeiger (from 1841)
- The Hamburg Item (from 1875)
- The Weekly Item (from 187?)
- The first year of publication was in 187?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Weekly Item
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86053530
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13777705
- Published In Pottsville ...
- We know of 58 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Pottsville. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Pottsville
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of West Penn. This extended list includes all the papers from Pottsville. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Penn
- Published In Schuylkill Haven ...
- Schuylkill Haven Call (from 1900)
- South Schuylkill News (from 2010)
- The Call (from 1903)
- The Call (from 1891)
- The Call (from 1895)
- The Call (from 1969)
- The Schuylkill Haven Map (from 184?)
- The Schuylkill Telegram (from 1893)
- The Weekly Call (from 1894)
- Published In Shenandoah ...
- Daily Evening Herald (from 1885)
- Daily Herald (from 1875)
- Daily Shenandoah Herald (from 1889)
- Darbininku Viltis (from 19??)
- Evening Herald, And Ashland Daily News (from 1966)
- Evening Herald (from 1876)
- Mining Herald (from 1870)
- Shenandoah Herald And Schuylkill County Real Estate Journal (from 1872)
- Shenandoah Herald (from 1870)
- Shenandoah Leader (from 193?)
- Shenandoah Weekly Herald (from 1874)
- Shenandoah Weekly Herald (from 1891)
- The Evening Herald (from 1891)
- The Evening Herald (from 1891)
- The Shenandoah Herald (from 188?)
- The Shenandoah Herald (from 1890)
- Weekly Herald (from 1895)
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Penn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Penn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7409, Longitude: -75.9610 In this case, the coordinates for West Penn have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |