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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

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

Our newspaper information for Worcester 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 Worcester. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Worcester. Our list contains 61 papers that were published within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Worcester.

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 Worcester.  

Newspapers Neighboring Worcester ...

The following newspapers were published within 5 miles [8 km] of Worcester.

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

  • Published In Kulpsville  ...
    • Towamensing Item (from 1885)
  • Published In North Wales  ...
  • Published In Skippack  ...
  • Published In Lansdale  ...
    • Lansdale Democrat (from 1884)
      • The first year of publication was in 1884, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Lansdale Democrat
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88079290
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17368702
    • Lansdale Reporter (from 1870)
    • Lansdale Republican (from 1884)
    • North Penn Reporter (from 1927)
    • North Penn Review And Lansdale Reporter (from 1923)
    • North Penn Review (from 1922)
    • RFD News (from 1950)
      • Years of publication:  1950 to 1951
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the RFD News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88079052
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 16577548
    • The Reporter (from 1979)
  • Published In Collegeville  ...
  • Published In Harleysville  ...
  • Published In Norristown  ...
    • We know of 61 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Norristown. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Norristown
    • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 5 miles [8 km]<1> of Worcester. This extended list includes all the papers from Norristown. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Worcester

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Worcester) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Worcester. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2012, Longitude: -75.3466       In this case, the coordinates for Worcester have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).