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, LLC, 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, LLC, as of 2017, owns the following:
Daily newspapers
- The Daily News, Huntingdon
- The Eagle-Times, Claremont, New Hampshire
- The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Latrobe Bulletin, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
- Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania
- The Morning Times, Sayre, Pennsylvania
- The Palladium Times, Oswego, New York
- Corry Journal, Corry, Pennsylvania
- Standard Journal, Milton, Pennsylvania
- The Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pennsylvania
- The News-Item, Shamokin, Pennsylvania
- The Daily Review, Towanda, Troy, and Sayre, Pennsylvania
- Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vermont
- Barre Montpelier Times Argus,, Barre, Vermont
- Indiana Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania
Mainline
- Mountaineer-Herald, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
- The Star-Courier, Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania
- The Dispatch, Portage, Pennsylvania
- The Mainliner, Cresson, Pennsylvania
- The Journal, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania
- Mainline Extra, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
Sample Media
- Sure Guide, Ocean City, New Jersey
- Somers Point Sentinel, Somers Point, New Jersey
- Ocean City Sentinel, Ocean City, New Jersey
- Cape May Star and Wave, Cape May, New Jersey
Other publications
- Broad Top Bulletin, Broad Top, Pennsylvania
- Philipsburg Journal, Philipsburg, Pennsylvania
- North East News-Journal, North East, Pennsylvania
- The Valley News, Fulton, New York
- Shippensburg News-Chronicle, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
- Argus Champion, Newport, New Hampshire
- The Valley Log, Orbisonia, Pennsylvania
- 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