Similar Stories to ‘we Won’t Waver From That Mission’: The Bdn Has Delivered Maine 130 Years Of News on Bing News

The headlines in the very first edition of the Bangor Daily News, published June 18, 1889, weren’t earth-shattering, in terms of newsworthiness: Comings and goings of ships up and down the Penobscot River. A murder trial in Chicago. Flooding in the Midwest. Horse racing results. But just as it was 130 years ago, even today, for every significant story or major news event that happens, there are countless other stories about everyday life in Maine, across the country and around the world that fill the pages of the BDN. One family has owned the BDN for nearly the entirety of its existence: four generations of the family of publisher Richard J.