One day post Village Soup, the recovery of mid-coast media via online and off-line newspapers are in the works.
PenBayToday.com began its online newspaper today. It's still bare bones, but hopefully they will get a full head of steam soon.
The Coastal Journal, an offshoot of the Portland Press Herald is an online paper that covers some midcoast news of interest.
The Bangor Daily News has had a local section online for some time. Steve Betts, who was a former Village reporter, and who now works for BDN, has been able to infuse the printed paper with local news also.
The Portland Press Herald is also online and contains Maine obituaries and high school sports.
The Free Press posts its entire paper online in the same format as it appears in print.
The Rocktown Rag. Look for this new publication, now posting on Facebook, to morf into a printed piece. Our friend, Tim Sullivan, is working on that now. It is an arts-based and arts event-based publication from what I can see at present. It may evolve into other things in the future.
I offer all these alternatives to newspaper lovers, whether on-line or off, until we may eventually get a daily newspaper in town. Give these formats your support now and later, cognizant of the fact that they were there when we needed them.
News of a local nature is always looked forward to for those local people who have moved away. They depend on local papers to keep them informed of what is happening back home. Meanwhile we have these formats to look into. I thank the people involved in the above enterprises. I'm still holding my breath, however, waiting for a more lasting and substantial paper to open and read here in Georgia.
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