Weirs Times
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Weirs Publishing Company Inc.
EditorBrendan Smith
Founded1883
Headquarters515 Endicott Street North, Weirs, Belknap County, NH 03246
Circulation30,000
OCLC number15993584
Websiteweirs.com

The Weirs Times is a free weekly newspaper that features stories about New Hampshire personalities, businesses, and histories. It has over 30,000 weekly readers in the central and eastern regions of the state.[1][2] Established in 1883, the Times was originally titled Calvert's Weirs Times and Tourists' Gazette.[3] Editor and owner Matthew Calvert published the paper every summer until 1902.[4]

In 1992 Bob Lawton revived the paper using the same masthead Calvert used, as well as the copyrighted map of Lake Winnipesaukee that was printed on every issue of Calvert's paper.[1][5] Lawson is also a former representative to the New Hampshire legislature and owns Funspot, which was named the largest arcade in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2008.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Weirs Times Online!". www.weirs.com. Retrieved 13 Sep 2018.
  2. ↑ "American Newspaper Representatives". gotoanr.com. Retrieved 13 Sep 2018.
  3. ↑ "Journalist and lecturer". The Tennessean. 3 Nov 1885.
  4. ↑ Huse, Warren D. (1 Jul 1997). The Weirs. Arcadia Publishing. p. 80. ISBN 9780738589541.
  5. ↑ "Weirs, N.H." The Boston Globe. 4 Jul 1886.
  6. ↑ "2017 Business Excellence Winner: Robert Lawton of Funspot". www.nhbr.com. Retrieved 13 Sep 2018.


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