The Mountain Times (Vermont newspaper) should not be confused with Mountain Times (North Carolina newspaper).
The Mountain Times | |
Type: | Weekly newspaper |
Foundation: | 1971 |
Owner: | Angelo Lynn |
Publisher: | Polly Lynn and Jason Mikula |
Editor: | Polly Lynn |
Language: | English |
Circulation: | 10,000 |
Headquarters: | Killington, VT |
Oclc: | 44437619 |
The Mountain Times is an American newspaper serving Killington, Vermont.
The Times It is published each Wednesday and has a circulation of over 10,000.[1] The paper is owned by Angelo Lynn and run by Polly and Jason Mikula. The newspaper covers Killington and surrounding towns in Rutland and Windsor Counties.[2] [3] The current editor is Polly Lynn Mikula.
The paper was founded in 1971 by Ed Pickett as Killington Pico-Paper.[4] Pickett, an advertising manager for the Mount Snow Ski Resort,[5] also published Ski Racer and Snow Valley News.[6] In 1976, Pickett sold the paper to Andrew Neisner, who changed the name to The Mountain Times.[1]
In 1986, Royal and Zip Barnard bought The Mountain Times.[7] They operated it for twenty-five years before selling it in 2011, along with eight other local newspapers, to the Lynn family.[8] The sale of the paper in 2011 was delayed by significant flooding in Vermont from Tropical Storm Irene.[9] The basement of the paper's printing office was damaged in the flood, but then-publisher Royal Barnard managed to publish an issue from his home that week.
Under the new management, the paper increased revenue by 15% by 2013.
The Mountain Times was the first to report about a proposal for Killington to secede from Vermont and join New Hampshire in 2004.[10]
2016[11] | Most Creative Use of Small Print Space | 1st | The Mountain Times | |
2016 | Digital Product Promotion to Readers | 1st | The Mountain Times | |
2016 | Pure Advertising Niche Publication | 2nd | The Mountain Times | |
2016 | Local Display Ad (color) | 2nd | The Mountain Times | |
2014[12] | Overall Design and Presentation | 3rd | The Mountain Times | |
2014 | Overall Mobile Application | 3rd | The Mountain Times |