The Morning Sentinel is an American daily newspaper published six mornings a week in Waterville, Maine . Printed at the Portland Press Herald press in South Portland, Maine , it covers cities and towns in parts of Franklin , Kennebec , Penobscot and Somerset counties.
4-629: The publication was run between 2000 and 2023 by MaineToday Media. In August 2023, it was announced that it had been acquired by a non-profit group of Maine newspapers, Maine Trust for Local News. Founded in 1904 by officials of the Waterville Democratic Party —Waterville mayor Cyrus Davis; future U.S. Senator Charles Fletcher Johnson ; and future mayor L. Eugene Thayer, leavened by newspaper veteran Thomas F. Murphy—the Waterville Morning Sentinel , within
8-555: A Maine native, later called the purchase "the largest and riskiest investment in our history" but a necessary move to keep the newspapers from becoming part of a corporate chain. It was sold in 2009 to MaineToday Media. In December, the newspaper was criticized for firing one of its journalists who had made negative remarks about the gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign . The Morning Sentinel prices are: $ 1.30 daily, $ 2.30 Saturday/Sunday "Weekend Edition". Charles Fletcher Johnson Too Many Requests If you report this error to
12-580: A year, grew from a three-desk operation to requiring its own building, on Silver Street. In 1911, a financially ailing Davis sold the paper to bond holders; ten years later, it was bought by Guy Gannett , who was in the process of building a newspaper, radio and television empire in Maine. His holdings included the Portland Press Herald and, after 1929, the Sentinel 's in-county competitor,
16-539: The Kennebec Journal . Gannett's ownership also saw the paper become less politically biased. Gannett and his heirs—no relation to the Virginia-based chain called Gannett Company —held the three Maine dailies until 1998, when they sold them to The Seattle Times Company , which rechristened the chain " Blethen Maine Newspapers ". Frank Blethen, a descendant of Seattle Times founder Albert Blethen,
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