The Addison Independent has acquired the Mountain Times.
The weekly paper for Killington and surrounding towns,was owned and published for many years by Royal Barnard. Addison Independent Publisher Angelo Lynn said today the acquisition took place October 1. The Times' circulation area is the southernmost of a "family" of western Vermont newspapers owned by the brothers Angelo and/or Emerson Lynn.
The new publisher is Polly Lynn, daughter of Angelo. Her sister, Elsie, publishes the Essex Reporter and the Colchester Sun. The Lynn brothers themselves are sons of a newspaper publisher, making theirs a three-generation family of publishers.
