WHO WE ARE

Not too long ago, when nearly all of our news came from newspapers, a special, early edition known in the trades as a bulldog would sometimes be published when an important event occurred. Here at www.dailybulldog.com we want to give readers the same chance to get the absolute freshest news about what’s happening all over Franklin County. If the news happens today, we want readers to read about it today.

Besides taking an informative look at all this local news, we also hope to provide extensive coverage of the rich body of work being produced by our county’s talented writers, poets and craftspeople, to cover all of the outdoor recreational possibilities around as well as to run the most current ads for available jobs, vacant apartments, and other things our readers need.

The Daily Bulldog is the only county-wide news source in Franklin County that is locally owned. It is published by Daily Bulldog LLC, a corporation formed by Bobbie and Woody Hanstein, residents of Farmington since 1985. The Bulldog will be edited by Bobbie Hanstein, who over the past ten years both at the Lewiston Sun and then, as the editor of the Franklin Journal, won numerous awards from both state and regional journalism organizations. The Bulldog will feature stories and columns by some of the best writers Franklin County has to offer, and it will include a variety of features we believe will not be available in any other publication.

In addition to overseeing The Daily Bulldog online, Bobbie Hanstein will also edit the monthly 5,000-copy in-print edition of the Bulldog which will be available, at least in the newspaper’s first few months, free of charge, at select locations throughout greater Franklin County.

WHY WE’RE HERE

These days news travels fast and people do as well. At the Daily Bulldog we hope to do three things

1. We want to get you the news first. If it happens today, we want you to read about it today.

2. We want our news to go far. Your kids may be out of state at college or serving in the military far from Franklin County or perhaps your parents or neighbors are wintering down south, but now all of them will have up-to-the-minute local news available to them at just the click of their mouse.

3. We want to be thorough. There are many important issues our area is facing – wind farms, school consolidation and tax relief just to name three. None of these issues lend themselves to easy answers or are well served by simple 400 word newspaper articles. At the Daily Bulldog we plan to cover these important issues in the detail they need so they can be understood and debated by all of us