Harry’s great-nephew gets first front-page byline

Eric Poston, great-nephew of BJ Alums founder and BJ newsroom retiree Harry Liggett, got his first front-page byline in the Suburbanite, owned by Gatehouse Media. Eric wrote about Green Mayor Dick Norton's State of the City address.

The Suburbanite covers Green, Coventry, Springfield, Manchester, Lakemore, Hartville, Lake and Jackson.

Eric lives in Green and is a Kent State journalism student who transferred from the University of Akron. He once was in charge of mowing Harry's lawn.  

Canton Repository marketing director Dan Mucci was named Suburbanite general manager in 2008. 

The Suburbanite leaders are Advertising Consultants Carol Cooney and Barbara Harding, editor Erin Pustay, assistant editor Andy Harris and advertising account executive Vickey Blakeslee. 

GateHouse is based in suburban Rochester, N.Y. It bought The Repository in April from Copley Newspapers, along with The Times-Reporter in New Philadelphia, The Independent in Massillon and The Suburbanite in Green.

GateHouse Media is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GHS."