http://company.bangornews.com/about/historical-overview The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://company.bangornews.com/about/historical-overview/breaking-2-newspaper-town <p>Born at 86-92 Exchange St., Bangor, Maine, June 18, 1889: One newspaper, the Bangor Daily News. The handsome infant is tiny but brash, friendly but not afraid of adventure. It is unintimidated by competition and will try anything to get attention. Although it sees everything in black and white, it has a colorful imagination.</p> <p>And it is given to braggadocio.</p> <p><a href="http://company.bangornews.com/about/historical-overview/breaking-2-newspaper-town">read more</a></p> Historical Overview Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:00:01 -0400 31 at http://company.bangornews.com http://company.bangornews.com/about/historical-overview/faltering-whig-merges-news <p>J. Norman Towle had no champagne bottles to uncork on the morning of March 5, 1900. Bangor had been a dry town since 1851 - on paper, at least - and anyway, the 36-year-old publisher of the Bangor Daily News wasn’t given to public celebration.</p> <p>But while the carrier boys hawked the NEWS up and down Exchange Street, things would never be the same in the four-story brick block, originally numbered 86-92 and renumbered 150-152 in 1895, where the paper had been born 11 years earlier.</p> <p><a href="http://company.bangornews.com/about/historical-overview/faltering-whig-merges-news">read more</a></p> Historical Overview Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:00:00 -0400 32 at http://company.bangornews.com