History
For much of the late 19th and early 20th century the only paper in Millerton was the ''Telegram''. The ''Telegram,'' started by Cooley James in 1876, quickly fell to Millerton local Colvin Card, who ran it until his illness and death in 1908. From 1908 to 1927 it was run by W. L. Loope, then sold to Guy S. Bailey, who consolidated it with the ''Harlem Valley Times'' of Amenia, leaving Millerton without a separate newspaper. In 1932, Peter Haworth, a former reporter for the New York Sun, founded the Millerton News. Acting as both editor and publisher, he ran the paper until he sold it to John Hage in January, 1947. He died the subsequent year. In 1972, the owner of ''The Lakeville Journal'', a weekly in neighboring Lakeville, Connecticut, bought ''The Millerton News''. Since that point, the paper has been run out of the Lakeville offices, with many of the stories shared between both papers. In 1995, the paper (along with sister publication the ''Journal'') was put up for sale by then-owner Robert Hatch. Fearing purchase by non-local investors, a group of local investors looking to retain news coverage in Millerton came together to purchase it. Later that year, the paper's operations were covered in ''The New Yorker'' in a piece called "Her Town", which detailed the one-woman reporting operation of ''News'' reporter Heather Heaton. The piece, written by award-winning writer Susan Orlean, was subsequently included as a chapter in her collection '' The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People.'' Writing in theReferences