[2] After being family-owned for a century, The Telegraph was bought in the 1980s by Independent Publications of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, which owned several smaller daily and weekly newspapers around the United States as well as some other businesses.

[3] In 2005, the paper's owner bought the Cabinet Press, publisher of weekly newspapers based in nearby Milford, New Hampshire.

[5][6] On February 23, 1980, the Telegraph received national attention during the New Hampshire presidential primary, when it hosted a Republican debate paid for by the campaign of former California Governor Ronald Reagan.

Reagan later recounted the incident as a "brief and seemingly small event, one lasting only a few seconds", that he said he thought, "helped take me to the White House".

In protest, one of them, Senator Bob Dole, complained to the Federal Election Commission that by financing a debate between only two of the seven candidates, the newspaper was making an illegal contribution to the Bush and Reagan campaigns.

I thought it had been unfair to exclude the other candidates from the debate.Arriving at the debate, Reagan found two seats prepared, one each for himself and for Bush on either side of Breen.