News about the news is happening so fast up in the old home town that I can’t even keep up with all the news about it. Today I saw the following story posted on the Free Press site and could hardly contain my excitement. I can’t wait to get the first paper in my hands.
| Reade Brower to Purchase All Remaining Village Net Media Assets | |
| 3/12/2012 4:49:00 PM | |
| by Alice McFadden On Monday afternoon, March 12, Reade Brower, founder and president of The Free Press, signed a letter of intent to purchase all the remaining assets of Village Net Media, including the Courier Gazette, the Camden Herald, the Republican Journal, Capital Weekly, Bar Harbor Times, and all Village Soup assets. Brower said he expects the sale to be finalized within days and expects to have newspapers back on the street in Rockland, Camden and Belfast as early as next week. He is meeting with some of the former employees this evening to begin to solidify plans and staffing. Brower, said on Sunday, "We consider it our responsibility as a community newspaper to figure out a way to fill the void left by Village Soup both in its news to the community and in helping as many of their former employees as possible." He said he is exploring the best way to quickly move forward. Brower also asks that we not continue to bash Richard Anderson, now the former owner of Village Net Media, but rather to look forward to the future of the written media in our area and asked for the community’s input and support. I for one am 100% percent behind Brower, and God Bless him, I say. Maybe all those employees who got email pink slips will have their jobs back soon. All I want to know is--how soon can I get a subscription to whatever our new Rockland area newspaper is being called? | |
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