''The Berlin Sun'' is a two-day (Tuesday and Thursday)
free newspaper
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published in the city of
Berlin, New Hampshire
Berlin ( ) is a city along the Androscoggin River in Coös County in northern New Hampshire, United States. It is the northernmost city in New Hampshire. The population was 9,425 at the 2020 census, down from 10,051 at the 2010 census.
It ...
,
U.S.
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, covering "
Berlin
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,
Gorham and the
North Country". The newspaper started as a five-day-a-week publication under the title ''The Berlin Daily Sun'', gradually reducing frequency to four, then three, and finally two days a week following declines in advertising revenue. The final Saturday edition was published on July 1, 2017, with subsequent issues bearing the moniker ''The Berlin Sun.''
The paper is distributed in Berlin, Gorham,
Errol,
Milan
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and
Shelburne, New Hampshire
Shelburne is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 353 at the 2020 census. It is located in the White Mountains, and part of the White Mountain National Forest is in the south. Shelburne is home to Leadmine Sta ...
, all in
Coös County.
It is printed on
tabloid paper and published by
Country News Club, and was founded in the early 1990s by Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan following the success of the similar but larger ''
The Conway Daily Sun
''The Conway Daily Sun'' is a five-day (Tuesday through Saturday) free daily newspaper published in North Conway, New Hampshire, United States, covering the Mount Washington Valley. It has been published since 1989 by Country News Club, and was t ...
''. The company now also publishes ''
The Laconia Daily Sun
''The Laconia Daily Sun'' is a five-day (Tuesday through Saturday) free morning daily newspaper published in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire, United States, covering Belknap County and the Lakes Region. Each publication day, 18,000 copies of ...
'' in the
Lakes Region of New Hampshire.
Local historian and author
Paul "Poof" Tardiff
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*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
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began writing articles in this newspaper and later published a three-volume series of books titled ''Once Upon a Berlin Time'', which documents local history.
Tardiff continued to write articles weekly until he died on March 13, 2018.
References
External links
''The Berlin Daily Sun''
Newspapers published in New Hampshire
Free daily newspapers
Berlin, New Hampshire
Coös County, New Hampshire
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