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2012.68.4Description
Green ballpoint pen with a cap. Printed on the side in silver is, "The Times Argus."Context
About the Times Argus from its website - https://www.timesargus.com/site/about.html
"We are a local 5-days a week newspaper based in Barre, Vermont owned and operated by Brunswick Publishing, LLC. We deliver print newspapers Tuesday through Saturday in Washington, Orange and Lamoille counties.
The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus is the product of a merger of the Montpelier Evening Argus and the Barre Daily Times in 1959. At that time, a family member of the Argus founder Hiram Atkins sold to the Times owners as the Argus was in financial difficulty.
The Barre Times was founded by Frank E. Langley, a printer from Wilmot, New Hampshire. Langley and his wife printed the paper out of their house, with a news policy of "Barre first and the rest of the world after." The first edition came out on March 16, 1897 and cost one cent. Langley's son remembered playing on the floor while Mrs. Langley set type in their Barre home.
In 1959 the newspaper was bought by Walker, who then sold the combined newspaper to Robert W. Mitchell and Gene Noble, owners of the Rutland Herald, in 1963. In 1979, Robert's son R. John became publisher of the Times Argus. Mitchell and his son R. John bought out the Noble family in 1986.
In 2016 the Times Argus and Rutland Herald were sold to Reade Brower of Maine and Charles "Chip" Harris of New Hampshire. Earlier in the year both papers had cut back their publication frequency from a daily cycle to four days per week. Brower and Harris then sold the papers to George R. "Scoop" Sample III and the Sample News Group in April of 2018. The Sample group operates the Herald and Times Argus under the umbrella company Brunswick Publishing, LLC."Relationships
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