The Sun Journal, a daily newspaper printed in Lewiston for 125 years, is stopping the press.
Beginning June 1, the paper said in a news article, it will be published at and distributed from the South Portland facility of Masthead Maine, the media group that purchased the Sun Journal in 2017 and owns 29 other news publications across the state.
With the move, the South Portland plant will print all five of Maine’s daily papers. They comprise the Bangor Daily News, which contracts its printing to the Lewiston press, and four dailies owned by Masthead Maine: the Kennebec Journal, based in Augusta; the Morning Sentinel, based in Waterville; the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram; and the Times Record, based in Brunswick.
Sun Journal moving printing operations to South Portland
The newsroom, advertising, circulation and customer service employees will continue working in the building at 104 Park St. in Lewiston.
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The brick three-story Sun Journal building on Park Street, lower left, stands next to the Lewiston Post Office at the corner of Ash and Park streets in Lewiston, upper left. The newspaper’s press is housed in the tan and brown building behind the main building and is the latest addition to the complex.
Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
With the consolidation, the South Portland facility will print all of the state’s daily newspapers.
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