About
MaineToday.com

MaineToday.com is Maine's largest news and information Web site with more than 500,000 unique visitors looking at over 8 Million Web pages each month.



MaineToday.com produces the Web sites and online services of Blethen Maine Newspapers (view our complete site index to see many of our offerings).



Every day you'll find the latest local news, weather and sports, ads for jobs, homes, cars and other "stuff", plus many other features only available online, including: movie times, articles on travel and the outdoors, a statewide entertainment calendar, business columns, health and fitness information and a forum for Maine teen-agers.



MaineToday's award-winning staff updates features throughout the day in order to give you the most timely information about what's happening in Maine.



About Blethen Maine Newspapers

Together with the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Coastal Journal and Community Leader newspapers, MaineToday.com is owned by Blethen Maine Newspapers, a member of the Seattle Times family.



Since 1896 the Seattle Times has been owned by the Blethen family, whose roots go back to Maine. Alden Blethen, a native of Unity, Maine, practiced law in Portland before heading to Washington, where he bought the Times in 1896.



Frank A. Blethen, Alden's great-grandson, is publisher and CEO of the Seattle Times Company, which took ownership of the Maine papers and new-media division November 2, 1998.



From 1921 to 1998, the Portland Newspapers were owned by Guy Gannett and his descendants. Gannett's daughter Jean became publisher after his death in 1954, in an era when women were rare in boardrooms. Madeleine Corson, Hawley's niece and a granddaughter of Guy Gannett, succeeded Jean Gannett Hawley as chairman of Guy Gannett Communications in 1994.



In 1995, the Portland papers launched their first Web site, which grew to a full-service Maine news site with a series of specialty sites on business, entertainment, tourism, Casco Bay and other subjects. Today, MaineToday.com is devoted to exploring opportunities on the Internet.