Sample News Group Acquires Laconia Citizen

Sample News Group, owned by George Sample, has purchased the Laconia Citizen from George J. Foster, Inc.  Sample News Group owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey and New York, including the Claremont Eagle-Times, Biddeford Journal Tribune, Ocean City Sentinel and Bedford Gazette.

George J. Foster, Inc owns the Foster Daily Democrat, along with other weeklies in the Boston and New Hampshire seacoast area.

Claremont Eagle News Re-Opens under new Ownership

The Claremont Eagle News has re-opened for business, effective Monday, October 12th, 2009. The Eagle News had closed without warning on July 10th, 2009. It is now under new ownership, the Sample Media Group.

The Eagle News is a daily publication. The distribution is anticipated to remain the same as it was prior to closing (roughly 8,200), and the majority of the previous staff has been re-hired per Joe Beegle of the Eagle News.