The Millerton News Explained

The Millerton News
Type:Weekly newspaper
Owners:The Lakeville Journal Company
Publisher:James H. Clark
Chiefeditor:John Coston
Maneditor:Maud Doyle
Foundation:1876
Language:English
Publishing City:Millerton, New York
Circulation:2,000

The Millerton News is an American weekly newspaper in Millerton, New York,[1] serving Millerton and surrounding Dutchess County. It is published by LJMN Media, Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Falls Village, CT.

History

For much of the late 19th and early 20th century the only paper in Millerton was the Telegram. The Telegram, started by Cooley James in 1876,[2] quickly fell to Millerton local Colvin Card, who ran it until his illness and death in 1908.[3] [4] From 1908 to 1927 it was run by W. L. Loope,[5] then sold to Guy S. Bailey, who consolidated it with the Harlem Valley Times of Amenia, leaving Millerton without a separate newspaper.

In 1932, Peter Haworth, a former reporter for the New York Sun,[6] founded the Millerton News.[7] Acting as both editor and publisher, he ran the paper until he sold it to John Hage in January, 1947. He died the subsequent year.

In 1972, the owner of The Lakeville Journal, a weekly in neighboring Lakeville, Connecticut, bought The Millerton News. Since that point, the paper has been run out of the Lakeville offices, with many of the stories shared between both papers.[8]

In 1995, the paper (along with sister publication the Journal) was put up for sale by then-owner Robert Hatch. Fearing purchase by non-local investors, a group of local investors looking to retain news coverage in Millerton came together to purchase it.[9] Later that year, the paper's operations were covered in The New Yorker in a piece called "Her Town", which detailed the one-woman reporting operation of News reporter Heather Heaton. The piece, written by award-winning writer Susan Orlean, was subsequently included as a chapter in her collection The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People.[10] Writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Emilia Sandoval noted the essay on the News as one of the "gems" of the collection.[11]

References

  1. Web site: Millerton News. Mondo Times. 3 September 2018.
  2. Book: Hasbrouck, Frank. The History of Dutchess County, New York. 1909. Higginson Book Company. en.
  3. News: Winsted. 25 February 1908. Hartford Courant. 2 September 2018.
  4. Book: Fourth Estate: A Weekly Newspaper for Publishers, Advertisers, Advertising Agents and Allied Interests. 1908. Fourth Estate Publishing Company. en.
  5. News: Warren L. Loope Dies, 92, Was Attorney and Publisher. 31 May 1964. Poughkeepsie Journal. 3 September 2018.
  6. News: Haworth, Former Publisher, Dead. 21 December 1948. The Post-Standard. 3 September 2018.
  7. Web site: About The News. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. 3 September 2018.
  8. News: Her Town. Orlean. Susan. 11 September 1995. The New Yorker.
  9. News: Newspaper purchase. 31 March 1995. Hartford Courant. 3 September 2018.
  10. Book: Orlean, Susan. The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People. 2002. Random House Trade Paperbacks. 9780375758638. en.
  11. News: New Yorker Spins Tales of Ordinary People. Sandoval. Emiliana. 20 January 2001. Pensacola News Journal. 3 September 2018.