The front page of an early October 2025 edition of The Keene Sentinel features stories about city elections, the ongoing drought in New Hampshire and two Medicare Advantage providers leaving the state.

It’s all local news. Flip to the second page of the paper, and you’ll see the paper’s masthead, a list of the over 225-year-old daily paper’s key personnel and contact information. The local theme continues on the masthead, says Sean Burke, president and chief operating officer of The Sentinel.

“ Here at The Sentinel, the owner and publisher [Thomas Ewing] lives and is involved in the community," Burke says.

That local element — a local owner of a local newspaper — is key to The Sentinel, says Burke.

“The news decisions become more sensitive to the needs of the community because we are l

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