On New Year's Eve 1962, a massive blizzard dumped over three feet of snow on Bangor, with 20-foot snowdrifts that made it impossible for the delivery trucks to move. It has only missed one day of delivery in its entire history. Warren became publisher in 1955 and remained in that role until 1984, a time when the newspaper's circulation dramatically increased. After Fred Jordan's death in 1947, his widow Lillis Towle Jordan became publisher. O’Connell was sent to Europe as a war correspondent. forces during World War II, and the paper's managing editor John M. Forty-six BDN staff members served in the U.S. Towle's son-in-law Fred Jordan took control of the paper in 1929. The Bangor Daily News merged with the Bangor Whig & Courier in 1900, leaving two newspapers in the city: BDN and the Bangor Daily Commercial (which ceased publication in 1949). Ownership of the paper remained in the family, and Towle's great-grandson Richard J. Upon Stewart's death in 1890, his sons took control of the paper, which was originally a tabloid with "some news, but also plenty of gossip, lurid stories and scandals." In 1895, J. The Bangor Daily News 's first issue was Jthe main stockholder in the publishing company was Bangor shipping and logging businessman Thomas J.
The car is on display at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor. As part of its community relations, the Bangor Daily News in 1950 sponsored a soap box derby car, which bore the newspaper's logo.
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