Valley News

{{Short description|Daily newspaper serving Lebanon, New Hampshire and White River Junction, Vermont, US}}

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = Valley News

| image = Valley News logo.svg

| image_size = 150px

| caption =

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = 1952

| ceased publication =

| owners = Newspapers of New England

| publisher = Dan McClory

| editor = Matt Clary

| language =

| political =

| circulation =

| headquarters = 24 Interchange Drive,
West Lebanon, New Hampshire

| ISSN = 1072-6179

| website = {{URL|vnews.com}}

}}

The Valley News is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, covering the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont, in the United States.

Although the newspaper's offices are in Lebanon, its mailing address is a post office box in nearby White River Junction, Vermont. The newspaper covers communities on both sides of the Connecticut River, which forms the state line.[http://www.vnews.com/graphics/vnratecard0906.pdf Valley News Rate Card No. 45], September 1, 2006. Accessed February 5, 2007. The paper's circulation is 16,522.{{Cite news|url=https://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/45/2597/6115|title=White River Junction Valley|work=mondotimes|access-date=2018-10-23|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90062382/|title=Valley news.|access-date=2018-10-28|issn=1072-6179}} The current editor is Matt Clary.{{Cite news|last=Staff Report|first=|date=June 15, 2021|title='Valley News' names new editor|work=Valley News|url=https://www.vnews.com/Valley-News-names-Clary-editor-40981441|access-date=February 2, 2022}}

The paper was founded in 1952 by Allan Churchill Butler.{{citation

| first1 = Loren

| last1 = Ghiglione

| authorlink1 = Loren Ghiglione

| first2 = Ben H.

| last2 = Bagdikian

| authorlink2 = Ben H. Bagdikian

| title = Evaluating the Press

| publisher = New England Daily Newspaper Survey

| year = 1973

| location = Southbridge, Massachusetts

| oclc = 859534}} Shortly thereafter he sold the paper to James D. Ewing and Walter Paine.{{citation

|title = Interview with James D. Ewing by Mike Richard

|publisher = The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College

|date = August 16, 1999

|location = Lewiston, Maine

|url = http://digilib.bates.edu/gsdl/collect/muskieor/index/assoc/HASH01bb.dir/doc.pdf

}}, archived by WebCite [https://archive.today/20240524080850/https://www.webcitation.org/5e79T9oGX?url=http://lagado.net23.net/ewing.html here] Paine would serve as editor and publisher of the paper for twenty-four years.{{citation

| first1 = Walter

| last1 = Paine

| authorlink1 = Walter Paine

| title = Cousin John: The Story of a Boy and a Small Smart Pig

| publisher = Bunker Hill Publishing

| year = 2006

| location = Southbridge, Massachusetts

| isbn = 978-1-59373-057-4

| page = [https://archive.org/details/cousinjohnstoryo0000pain/page/ (Author bio on dust jacket)]

| url = https://archive.org/details/cousinjohnstoryo0000pain/page/

| oclc = 122930106

| url-access = registration

}} In 2012, the Valley News, the Nashua Telegraph, and PolitiFact established "PolitiFact '12 NH," a fact-checking effort focused on the candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election. At the time, Jeffrey Good was the Valley News' editor.{{cite news |title=Who Needs Perspective When You Have NOW? |date=June 27, 2011 | work=National Journal }}

Newspapers of New England, a private company based in Concord, New Hampshire, bought the Valley News in 1981 and has owned it since."William Dwight, 92, Holyoke publisher". Obituary. Union-News, Springfield, Mass., June 5, 1996.

Until the end of 2023, the Valley News was published seven days a week. The Sunday Valley News was last published December 31, 2023. Starting on January 6, 2023, a Weekend edition was published on Saturday. It included the recurring items from both Saturday and Sunday, e.g., the daily comics for Saturday and the usual Sunday comics.