Six Towns Times

The Six Towns Times was a six-column, eight-page weekly newspaper focused on the news of six towns in southern Maine, United States. It was published on Fridays in Portland, Maine,The Town Register: Benton, Clinton, Fairfield, 1909, Mitchell Publishing Company (1909), p. 152 by Libby & Smith,American Newspaper Directory (1899), p. 403 between 1892 and 1916."Looking For Volunteers" - Freeport Historical SocietyAncient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937)"National Newspaper Directory and Gazetteer" - Google Books It reported the news of six towns: Cumberland, Freeport (where the newspaper was headquartered),Marketing Communications, volume 17, "Printers' Ink" (1896), p. 31 Harpswell, North Yarmouth, Pownal and Yarmouth.Report, Maine Press Association, p. 31

In its early days, the newspaper's title was Six Towns Times: Yarmouth Gazette and Freeport Sentinel.

The newspaper had a circulation of 900 during its peak years.A Statistical Study of the Newspapers of the United States, Roy Laverne French (1924), p. 172

Its editor was Charles Thornton Libby (1861–1948). Yarmouth historian William Hutchinson Rowe called the publication a "lost but not forgotten institution."

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External links Six Towns Times - Google News