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Reade Brower, who owns the Sun Journal and other daily and weekly newspapers across the state, has been in preliminary discussions with the Maine Journalism Foundation.
Bill Nemitz, a longtime columnist for the Portland Press Herald, is leading a group that hopes to buy the newspaper's parent organization which owns many other daily and weekly newspapers around the state and run it as a nonprofit.