The Black River Tribune was a weekly newspaper founded in 1976 and covered the areas of Springfield, Ludlow, Cavendish, Plymouth, Andover, and Mount Holly, Vermont.
[3] The Black River Tribune was co-founded and first edited by William Hunter and Leigh Tofferi.
The early-days Black River Tribune staff included a number of budding journalists such as Jane Mayer, Alex Beam, and Nelson Graves.
The goal, Hunter noted, was to reduce the number of harmful libel suits aimed at small local newspapers.
[15] Early in the paper's history, it received national attention for its reporting on a resident in nearby Cavendish, Vermont Alexander Solzhenitsyn.