Caledonian-Record

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The Caledonian-Record
Type	Daily Newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner
Publisher	Mark M. Smith
Editor	Dana Gray
Founded	1837
Headquarters	190 Federal Street St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 United States
Circulation	9,609
ISSN	1054-3716
OCLC	12180513

Website: Caledonian-Record

The Caledonian-Record is a daily newspaper published in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.^[1] It was established in 1837.^[2] It employs a staff of 36.^[3]

1 Circulation
2 History
3 Caledonian-Record Pub. Co., Inc. v. VT State College
4 The Caledonian Recently
5 Notes
6 External links

[edit] Circulation

The paper is distributed in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and the North Country of New Hampshire. It maintains a New Hampshire office located at 25 Federal Street in Littleton, New Hampshire.^[4] It is published daily except Sunday and some holidays.^[2]^[5] ^[6]

The Caledonian has focused on local news from 50 communities, which are located in three Vermont counties and two New Hampshire ones.^[7] The average daily net paid circulation for six months ending March 2008 was 9,609.^[8].

Penetration of the primary market area of St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville was under 93%. For the area immediately surrounding St. Johnsbury the Caledonian provided coverage of 80% of the occupied households.^[9]

[edit] History

Albert G. Chadwick began publishing the paper as a weekly in August, 1837. It is the oldest paper in the county. It started as a four page, twenty-four column paper.^[10]

It was a Whig paper when it started^{[citation needed]}. At the time, Vermont was strongly Whig^{[citation needed]}. The paper advocated the principles of the Free Soil element and became an early adherent and unswerving supporter of the principles of the Republican Party. It was edited and published by its founder for 18 years. George D. Rand and Charles M. Stone bought it in July 1855. Stone became the sole owner, editor and publisher in April 1857.

In 1875 it was still a weekly newspaper. Subscribers paid $1.50 a year.

[edit] Caledonian-Record Pub. Co., Inc. v. VT State College

The Caledonian garnered attention in 2003 over a court case entitled Caledonian-Record Pub. Co., Inc. v. VT State College. The Caledonian wanted to have access to student disciplinary records and hearings from Lyndon State College. Lyndon state claimed that it was exempt from making the requested information public per the Vermont Public Records Act and the Open Meetings Law. The local court sided with Lyndon State College, and an appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court followed. The Vermont Supreme Court upheld the verdict. ^[11] ^[12]^[13] Julie Fothergill, an attorney with the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, stated that the ruling "is important for all public bodies because it indicates how the Court may interpret other exceptions to the Public Records Law."^[14]^[15]

[edit] The Caledonian Recently

The Caledonian was the first Vermont newspaper to publish online^{[citation needed]}. In 2007 the paper employed a staff of 40, and its sales ranged from one million to five million dollars annually.^[2]

In 2007 the paper became involved in a partnership with the ASNE at Lyndon Institute to publish a school newspaper, the first the school has had, entitled The Campus News.^[5]

In 2008 the paper outsourced the printing of the paper to Upper Valley Press in Haverhill, N.H., citing equipment, quality control and personnel problems.^[16]