Maine Community Foundation launches local press initiative

Maine Community Foundation launches local press initiative

Press Forward Maine to be led by Maine media executive Lisa DeSisto The Maine Community Foundation announced the launch of a new initiative to strengthen Maine communities by ensuring strong, local news coverage in all parts of the state. MaineCF applied and has been selected by the nonpartisan philanthropic initiative Press Forward to become one of 36 independent chapters nationwide.  Press Forward and Press Forward Maine share the goal of stre…

BNews sold, purchased by Conway Daily Sun

For just the second time in its 155-year history, The Bridgton News has been sold. The Conway Daily Sun has bought The Bridgton News, a weekly newspaper that has served western Maine since 1870. Publisher and now former owner of The News, Wayne Rivet, will continue to run the paper, and the staff will remain the same, according to The Sun’s publisher, Mark Guerringue. Mark GuerringueConway Daily Sun owner “It’s an excellent paper that fills the…