Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Leonard A. Weisbeck Jr |
Editor | Leonard A. Weisbeck Jr |
Founded | 1914 |
Language | American English |
Headquarters | 13200 Broadway St. Alden, Erie County, New York |
Country | United States |
Circulation | appx. 3400 |
Readership | Alden, Erie County |
OCLC number | 25104817 |
Website | aldenadvertisernews |
The Alden Advertiser is an American, English language newspaper serving Alden, Marilla, Darien and the surrounding communities of Erie County in New York.[1]
Founded in 1914 as a weekly,[2] the paper has a circulation of approximately 3,400.[1][3] Leonard A. Weisbeck Jr. is the owner and editor of the paper.[1]
The paper was founded as a weekly by J. Childs.[2] In 1917 the paper was bought by Leo Whitney,[4][5] formerly of the Record.[6] Whitney would run it until 1929.[7]
In 1932 Joseph A Weisbeck took ownership of the paper.[8] He died in 1962 and turned the paper over to his son Leonard.[9] Weisbeck is former head of the Western New York Publishers Association.[10]