Feb. 19, 2010

Bulletin photos by Don Harney

Left: Staff members of The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H., and its sister newspaper, The Cabinet of Milford, N.H., join David Solomon, executive editor, at center, in saluting those papers’ general excellence awards and other first-place plaques.
Right: Alan Baker, publisher of The Ellsworth (Maine) American, pulls the trigger in celebration of a general excellence award, one of 13 first-place awards won by the American and its sister newspaper, the Mt. Desert Islander of Bar Harbor, Maine.

NENPA weds workshops,
awards in first convention

By Sarah MacDonald
Bulletin Correspondent

Unlike most marriages, the one between the former New England Newspaper and New England Press associations had its first celebratory get-together a little more than seven months after the wedding.

Members and leaders of the New England Newspaper and Press Association gathered at the first NENPA Convention and Trade Show Friday, Feb. 5, and Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.

Now the focus will shift to forging a stronger union in the coming year, according to Mary Pat Rowland, who was elected president of the association at its annual meeting Feb. 6.

Rowland, managing editor of Foster’s Daily Democrat of Dover, N.H., said NENPA board members spent the seven months since the organization’s founding getting to know each other and taking care of organizational matters. Rowland said she hopes to focus this year on building the organization, which was created from a merger of the New England Newspaper Association and New England Press Association July 1. MORE >

Bulletin photo by Don Harney

Almost 400 guests attended the first awards banquet of the merged New England Newspaper and Press Association at its inaugural convention Feb. 5 and 6 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.

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