Carlisle Sentinel
The Sentinel is a daily newspaper based in Carlisle, serving the Harrisburg metropolitan area. The newspaper is generally considered more conservative than the Patriot and has a strong circulation base in central and western Cumberland and parts of Perry County. The Sentinel is a news organization that delivers news, sports, community and breaking news on multiple platforms for Cumberland County and in Central Pennsylvania. Our print edition features a circulation of 12,939 on weekdays and 41,621 on Sundays and publishes 365 days a year. In September 1997, the newspaper added a twice weekly Shippensburg Sentinel that is delivered to 8,000 households on Wednesdays and 13,000 households on Fridays in Shippensburg, Newburg, Orrstown, Roxbury, Lurgan and Walnut Bottom. Lee Enterprises, a leading publisher of small and mid-sized newspapers based in Davenport, Iowa, purchased the newspaper in 2002 along with 15 other Howard Publications newspapers