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The Daily Sentinel is a newspaper serving the Utica-Rome metropolitan area in Central New York. It is based in Rome, New York and has an office in Utica, New York.

History

Earlier Rome papers in the 1820s sharing the same publisher included the Rome Telegraph and Democratic Sentinel. The two began publishing as the Rome Sentinel (including Rome Weekly Sentinel and Rome Daily Sentinel) in the 1840s. Since 1864, the Sentinel has been family-owned. Through marriage, the name of the owning family has changed from Kessinger to Barnard to Waters.

Since as early as 1855, Sentinel articles, editorials, and photos have been reprinted or used as sources by other papers such as The New York Times, as well as the Associated Press. The Sentinel covered the activities at nearby Griffiss Air Force Base, including the presence of nuclear weapons there, until the closure of Griffiss in 1994.

The Sentinel company founded a radio station, WRUN, which signed on April 24, 1948. WRUN stood for "Rome-Utica News". At the time it applied for permits, the signal from Utica-based competitor WIBX was too weak to reach Rome at night; WIBX upgraded their transmitter soon after. Dick Clark was an announcer at WRUN before becoming a television news anchor at WKTV in 1951. The Sentinel company sold WRUN in 1970. Later, a local FM repeater of WAMC would use the call letters WRUN, and the AM station would rebrand as WUTI, which would become defunct in 2013.

The Sentinel company published the "Clinton Record" from 2018 to 20202, covering the village of Clinton.

In early 2022, the paper rebranded as the Daily Sentinel. Other changes at the same time included switching from carrier delivery to delivery via the U.S. Postal Service, expansion of local news coverage to all of Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties, and a $1 increase in rates. At that time, publisher Bradley Waters mentioned that the paper had not turned a profit for four years, and expressed hopes that the changes would allow the Sentinel to remain family-owned. Over the following year, the boards of the Utica City School District and the town of New Hartford voted to switch from the Utica-based Observer-Dispatch to the Sentinel as their official newspaper. In its organizing meeting for its 2024 term, the Utica Common Council voted to switch the city's official newspaper to the Sentinel.

References

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5. ^ "About Us". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
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9. "Article 1". The New York Times. January 27, 1855. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021. which we copy from the Rome Sentinel
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12. "Pending sale of Nirvana could keep Forestport plant operational". Watertown Daily Times. November 24, 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2023. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
13. "Regulators' decision on rail line's control awaits DEC application". Times Union (Albany). May 10, 2018. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
14. "Drive to cut alcohol-fueled crashes". Times Union (Albany). September 16, 2015. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
15. Dave Taft; John Clifford (January 9, 2015). "Amid Urban Debris, the Snowy Owl Is a Wintertime Ghost". Associated Press (APnews). Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021. Rome Daily Sentinel, via Associated Press
16. "Nuclear Deterrence as a neighbor". The New York Times. December 27, 1982. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
17. Broadcasting Yearbook 1981 (PDF). 1981. p. C-164. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
18. ^ "Sports World Specials: BASEBALL; What's in a name?". The New York Times. June 12, 1989. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
19. "Sentinel Company Files Applications For 2 Radio Stations" (PDF). Rome Sentinel. April 25, 1946. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
20. Clark, Dick; Robinson, Richard (1978). Rock, Roll & Remember. New York: Crowell. ISBN 978-0-445-04178-3.
21. Broadcasting Yearbook 1971 (PDF). 1971. p. B-145. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2010.
22. "Former WRUN radio station to be purchased by Fly Creek firm". Utica Observer-Dispatch. September 21, 2010. Archived from the original on November 26, 2023. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
23. "WRUN: Northeast Public Radio 90.3 FM". Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
24. Thomas M. BakerStaff writeremail (August 15, 2024). "Historically speaking!". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
25. "DAILY SENTINEL: Celebrating 160 years". Rome Sentinel. August 15, 2024. Retrieved September 1, 2024.
26. "Historic rebrand for Rome Sentinel". WKTV NewsChannel2. January 12, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
27. Cleaver, Jolene (January 11, 2022). "Changes needed to save future of local news". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
28. Caputo, Thomas Caputo (July 7, 2022). "New members sworn in to Utica board of ed; Daily Sentinel chosen as district's official newspaper". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
29. Manore, Alexis (January 7, 2023). "New Hartford Town Board makes Daily Sentinel its official newspaper". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
30. Caputo, Thomas (January 3, 2024). "Daily Sentinel designated as Utica's official newspaper". Rome Sentinel. Retrieved January 4, 2024.

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