Peter Wine, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Dayton | OH | USA | Posted: 6:41 PM on 06.15.09 |
->> Frank Blethen, Chairman of Blethen Maine Newspapers and Publisher of The Seattle Times, said his family was reluctant to sell the Maine newspapers, but needed to focus their attention on their Washington state newspapers. Blethen noted that his family had a special affinity to Maine as his great-grandfather, Alden, the founder of The Seattle Times in 1896, was a Maine native who grew up in Waldo County.
Full press release:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/06/15/2009341650.pdf
Better sold than closed, I guess, for both the Maine and Seattle papers. |
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