''The Daily Sentinel'' is a
newspaper serving the
Utica-Rome metropolitan area in
Central New York. It is based in
Rome, New York and has an office in
Utica, New York.
History
Earlier Rome papers in the 1820s sharing the same publisher included the ''Rome Telegraph'' and ''Democratic Sentinel''. The two began publishing as the ''Rome Sentinel'' (including ''Rome Weekly Sentinel'' and ''Rome Daily Sentinel'') in the 1840s.
Since 1864, the ''Sentinel'' has been
family-owned
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.
Through marriage, the name of the owning family has changed from Kessinger to Barnard to Waters.
Since as early as 1855, ''Sentinel'' articles, editorials, and photos have been reprinted or used as sources by other papers such as the ''
The New York Times'', as well as the
Associated Press. The ''Sentinel'' covered the activities at nearby
Griffiss Air Force Base, including the presence of nuclear weapons there, until the closure of Griffiss in 1994.
The Sentinel company founded a radio station, WRUN, which signed on April 24, 1948.
WRUN stood for "Rome-Utica News".
At the time it applied for permits, the signal from Utica-based competitor
WIBX was too weak to reach Rome at night; WIBX upgraded their transmitter soon after.
was an announcer at WRUN before becoming a television news anchor at
WKTV in 1951. The Sentinel company sold WRUN in 1970.
Later, a local FM repeater of
WAMC would use the call letters
WRUN, and the AM station would rebrand as
WUTI, which would become defunct in 2013.
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counties, and a $1 increase in rates. At that time, publisher Bradley Waters mentioned that the paper had not turned a profit for four years, and expressed hopes that the changes would allow the ''Sentinel'' to remain family-owned.Utica City School District
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and the town of New Hartford voted to switch from the Utica-based '' Observer-Dispatch'' to the ''Sentinel'' as their official newspaper
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. In its organizing meeting for its 2024 term, the Utica Common Council voted to switch the city's official newspaper to the ''Sentinel''.
References
Daily newspapers published in New York (state)
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