PORTLAND, Maine — Readers of the Bangor Daily News in Portland can pick up each day’s paper for free at eight Portland-area Bangor Savings Bank locations.
The promotion is slated to run for 10 weeks at Bangor Savings Bank locations in Portland, South Portland, Falmouth and Scarborough.
Bangor Savings Bank was founded in 1852 and has 56 branches throughout Maine employing 700 people. The company opened its first Portland branch in 2005 and since has opened seven more in Greater Portland in an effort to provide customers with a local experience.
The free papers come as the BDN expands its presence throughout the state, with three reporters and a photographer now based in Maine’s largest city. The BDN has the largest news team in Maine, with reporters at its home office in Bangor and in Augusta, Bar Harbor, Bath, Belfast, Ellsworth, Houlton, Lincoln, Machias, Newport and Rockland.
Readers do not have to be Bangor Savings Bank customers to pick up the free papers.
If the Portland area gets as much news printed as the Central Maine edition it won’t be even fit to wrap fish in. Hello, hello, hello is there anybody out there??
This is silly, why don’t you guys finally merge, have one print plant and cut some non-productive overhead — but keep the 1 minute hikes.
Best bank in Maine, best newspaper in Maine.
I agree about Bangor Savings being the best bank in Maine, however BDN use to be best newspaper in Maine until it was hijacked by the liberal progressives in the state. The only conciliation is that the paper is not nearly as popular as it use to be. Most read it just for obituaries.
Pretty disappointing as I know a few people who look at the paper now just for that. Newspapers soon to be a thing of the past, well they seem to be already
HA! Make that deal in some other BSB locations! I’d be happy to pick one up on the mid-coast. Trying to find a BDN on the mid-coast in next to impossible…we’re stuck with the Village Soup…
At what locations are you trying to find the BDN? Send an email to wdavis@bangordailynews.com and I’ll see if I can help.
Will
Do you suppose the BDN realizes the irony of ‘printing’ this story in an online newspaper, where it will be read by people who haven’t paid for a copy of their paper in years?
Friend, the BDN is making strives toward boosting it’s online paper not the print version. Haven’t you noticed the vast amount of advertizing on the web? They know where the money is but sacrificed a lot of good loyal employees. trying to break into that market.
Why aren’t you doing it for all branches across the State? That is a little prejudicial for a left leaning paper like the BDN is it not?