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Gazette Newspapers launches four Frederick editions; Total circulation now surpasses 330,000.


GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1996--Gazette Newspapers, a 37-year-old community newspaper company that began in Gaithersburg, will launch four new editions in Frederick County Frederick County is the name of several counties in the United States.
  • Frederick County, Maryland
  • Frederick County, Virginia
 on Oct. 3.

The newspapers will provide coverage of communities throughout Frederick County and carry a complete report on regional, county, education, business and state news of interest to local residents.

The four editions will include: the Frederick Gazette, the Walkersville/Thurmont Gazette, the Middletown/Brunswick Gazette, and the New Market/Urbana Gazette.

Since 1982, Gazette Newspapers has published a Mount Airy Mount Airy is the name of several places in the United States of America:
  • Mount Airy, Georgia
  • Mount Airy, Louisiana
  • Mount Airy, Maryland
  • Mount Airy, Nevada
  • Mount Airy, New Jersey
  • Mount Airy, New York
  • Mount Airy, North Carolina
 edition in the Eastern side of the county, serving 10,000 homes and businesses in Frederick, Carroll and Howard counties Howard County is the name of seven counties in the United States of America:
  • Howard County, Arkansas: named for James H. Howard, an Arkansas state senator.
  • Howard County, Indiana: named for Tilghman Ashurst Howard, an U.S. Representative from Indiana.
.

The new editions will be delivered every Thursday on a complimentary basis to virtually every business and home in Frederick County, a marketing concept known in the newspaper industry as total market coverage, with an estimated county circulation of 67,000 copies.

With the Mount Airy Gazette, the circulation will be about 70,000 copies including the Mount Airy area. Total circulation for all Gazette weekly editions will now surpass 330,000 copies.

"Gazette Newspapers has been doing business in Frederick County for a number of years," said Maury Hassett, newly-named publisher of the Frederick Gazettes and a 37-year resident of Frederick County who has worked with Gazette Newspapers as a sales representative, director of automotive advertising and director of market development.

"Frederick businesses and individuals currently invest more than $1 million in advertising each year with Gazette Newspapers and many of them along with a large number of residents have encouraged us to increase our presence here," he said.

"With Frederick County's population growing by 55 percent since 1980, we believe there is room for a weekly newspaper like the Gazette to become a full-fledged member of this community."

Ginny Ginny is most often used as a short form of the name Virginia, but often also refers to Ginevra, Geneva, Genevieve and other Juniper-related names. In addition, when a food or beverage has a juniper taste, it is said to be ginny (the word gin is derived from the Dutch word for  Fite, formerly the managing editor of the Mount Airy Gazette and a former writer for "Frederick Magazine," has been appointed editor of the Frederick, Middletown/Brunswick, and Walkersville/Thurmont editions.

She has won numerous writing awards including honors from the Society for Professional Journalist and Suburban Newspapers of America and holds a master's degree master's degree
n.
An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree.

Noun 1.
 from Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. .

Carol Blackburn, who has been publisher and editor of the Mount Airy Gazette for four years, will continue in that capacity and also serve as publisher and editor of the New Market/Urbana newspaper.

Chuck Lyons, president of Gazette Newspapers, commented, "There was a day when Frederick, Montgomery and Carroll counties Carroll County is the name of thirteen counties in the United States of America. All except Carroll County, Tennessee, are named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence from Maryland:
  • Carroll County, Arkansas
 and everything west of them were one county in Maryland. Today, our economies and the migration north from the Washington region have brought us closer together."

"Of the 87,000-strong workforce in Frederick County, 35 percent commute TO COMMUTE. To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment.  southward south·ward  
adv. & adj.
Toward, to, or in the south.

n.
A southward direction, point, or region.



south
 daily on I 270 to work, mostly in Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
  • Montgomery County, Alabama
  • Montgomery County, Arkansas
  • Montgomery County, Georgia
  • Montgomery County, Illinois
  • Montgomery County, Indiana
  • Montgomery County, Iowa
  • Montgomery County, Kansas
 where Gazette Newspapers publishes 18 editions with a circulation of 270,000 copies," he said. "In fact, one out of six people who work for our own organization in Montgomery County resides in Frederick County and that number is growing."

"Growth and change in this region is inevitable," said Lyons. "But how we manage this process and meld the best of our past with our brightest hopes for the future is the challenge before all of us."

"Our mission at Gazette Newspapers is to provide communities with a professional, credible news organization that can aid citizens, whether new to the area or rooted in past generations, with information to make decisions about community life," said Lyons.

"We also believe in connecting members of a community and place as much value on informing people about each other as we do about the serious issues we face," he said.

"We also plan to join hands with those community efforts committed to improving the quality of life for all who call Frederick home," he said. "Our staff will be largely Frederick-based. We will be anchored here, deeply involved, and ready to help worthy local organizations succeed."

Gazette Newspapers, whose corporate office is located in Gaithersburg, is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. Currently, 17 editions are published every Wednesday in Montgomery County, plus a countywide coun·ty·wide  
adv. & adj.
Throughout a whole county: found at locations countywide; a countywide search.

Adj. 1.
 edition, the Montgomery Gazette The Montgomery Gazette is a local newspaper in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is owned by the Washington Post Company. , is published every Friday, and the Montgomery Business Gazette is published monthly.

Gazette Newspapers owns Comprint Printing and Comprint Military Publications which publishes the Fort Detrick Fort Detrick is a U.S. Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland, USA. Its 1,200 acres (5 km) support a multi-governmental community that conducts biomedical research and development, medical material  Standard in Frederick County. The company is developing two world wide web sites, Gazette.Net whose address is http://www.gazette.net and DCMilitary whose address is http://www.dcmilitary.com.

CONTACT: Frederick County Gazettes

Maury Hassett, publisher, 301/682-4046

or

Gazette Newspapers

Chuck Lyons, president, 301/948-3120
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