Sample News Group
The Sample News Group, LLC, is an American publisher of newspapers serving suburban and rural markets in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire. The company is family owned and is structured as a Pennsylvania limited liability corporation and is headquartered in Corry, Pennsylvania.
History[]
The Sample News Group was founded by George Raymond Sample, Jr. (1924–2008).[1] As of 2017, George "Scoop" Sample (né George Raymond Sample III; born 1952), one of eight children of George Sample, is listed as President. The Biddle family – namely two sons of Joseph Franklin Biddle, publishers John Hunter Biddle (1905–1977) and successor Joseph Franklin Biddle II (born 1936) – former publisher The Daily News of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, sold The Joseph F. Biddle Publishing Company to The Sample News Group on October 21, 1991. The Sample News Group is also actively managed by George Sample's wife, Marlene Sample (aka "Sissie" Kane; née Marlene Sue Kane; born 1951).
Selected holdings[]
The Sample News Group, as of 2020, owns the following:
Daily newspapers[]
- Barre Montpelier Times Argus,, Barre, Vermont
- Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania
- Corry Journal, Corry, Pennsylvania
- The Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pennsylvania
- The Daily News, Huntingdon
- The Daily Review, Towanda, Pennsylvania
- The Eagle-Times, Claremont, New Hampshire
- The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Indiana Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania
- Latrobe Bulletin, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
- The Morning Times, Sayre, Pennsylvania
- The News-Item, Shamokin, Pennsylvania
- The Palladium Times, Oswego, New York
- Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vermont
- Standard Journal, Milton, Pennsylvania
Weekly newspapers[]
- Cape May Star and Wave, Cape May, New Jersey
- The Dispatch, Portage, Pennsylvania
- The Journal, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania
- Mainline Extra, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
- The Mainliner, Cresson, Pennsylvania
- Mountaineer-Herald, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
- Ocean City Sentinel, Ocean City, New Jersey
- The Star-Courier, Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania
- Sure Guide, Ocean City, New Jersey
Other publications[]
- Argus Champion, Newport, New Hampshire
- Broad Top Bulletin, Broad Top, Pennsylvania
- North East News-Journal, North East, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Business Central, State College, Pennsylvania
- Philipsburg Journal, Philipsburg, Pennsylvania
- Shippensburg News-Chronicle, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
- The Valley Log, Orbisonia, Pennsylvania
- The Valley News, Fulton, New York
- The Valley Times-Star, Newville, Pennsylvania
References[]
- ^ "Extensions of Remarks – Honoring the Life of George R. Sample, Jr.," sponsored by Phil English, U.S. Congressman, Congressional Record, July 30, 2008, pps. 17775 & 17776
- Newspaper companies of the United States
- Publishing companies established in 2000