City historian Bob Montgomery just told us that 25 years ago today, the Barnes family announced it was selling The Bristol Press. That's a sad day in Bristol history.
Though corporate owners did right by the paper at first, it went into a free fall after the 1994 purchase of the then-thriving daily by a company I don't want to name or remember. Thank God we're done with them, after Mike Schroeder bought us a year ago.
Though this remains a perilous time for any newspaper, at least we're still alive and still have hope that the world ahead still has room for this little paper's coverage of the town it has served since 1871.
Even so, I miss Bart Barnes.
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5 comments:
Bart Barnes would not recognize his newspaper today. Sad.
Should have let it die.
If you turn over enough rocks eventually you'll find an historian. And in this case they did with Bob Montogomery. Now we can all hear about his twisted idea of who was what and what was who about Bristol. Can we get a re-call?
To Mr. 843am, Bob Montgomery is a city treasure and one to be admired... His work preserving and documenting the history of our great town is first class.
To Bob,
Pay no mind to these useless creeps on here. Keep up the good work Mike and Bob. We do need some decency for a change.The Press is a blessing opposed to theis blog and it's useless anonymity.
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