| Meredith News | |
| Type: | Weekly newspaper |
| Format: | Tabloid |
| Foundation: | 1880 |
| Owners: | Salmon Press |
| Editor: | Erin Plummer |
| Circulation: | 3,000 |
| Circulation Date: | 2018 |
| Headquarters: | 5 Water Street, Meredith, New Hampshire 03253 United States |
The Meredith News is a weekly newspaper published in Belknap County, New Hampshire. The newspaper has about 3,000 subscribers across the towns of Meredith, Center Harbor, Sandwich, and Moultonborough, and the city of Laconia.[1] [2] It is owned by Salmon Press LLC.[3]
The first issue was published on July 22, 1880, as the Meredith Weekly News.[4] The publisher George F. Sanborn ran the paper from an office on the second floor of his family home. In 1882, Sanborn started an initiative to build a free public library. At the time, most libraries in the state were "private" libraries that only benefited paying members.[5] The library was implemented in the Sanborn home next to the Meredith News office.[6]
One of Meredith's most prominent residents was Bob Montana, a famous cartoonist known best for illustrating the first Archie comics. Montana was good friends with editor Leo Kershaw of the News, and starting in 1947 Archie comic strips became a regular feature in the Meredith newspaper. Each feature was proudly titled "Archie... By Meredith's Bob Montana".[7]