The Advertiser Democrat

The Advertiser Democrat is a weekly newspaper serving 18 towns in the Greater Oxford Hills region of western Maine, published from its offices in Norway, Maine.

The paper's lineage traces back to the Oxford Observer, founded in 1824, and runs through a succession of Oxford County titles, including the Oxford Democrat (1833) and the Norway Advertiser (1844). The two competing papers merged in 1933-34 to form the Advertiser Democrat. It is one of the outlets sometimes cited as Maine's oldest newspaper. The paper is now part of the Maine Trust for Local News, the nonprofit publisher that also owns the Lewiston Sun Journal and other former Masthead Maine and Sun Media Group weeklies.

The paper carries local news, obituaries, and community announcements for the Oxford Hills area, including the towns of Norway, Paris, Oxford, and Waterford, among others. Its archive spans more than 31,000 digitized pages dating to 1850.

The Advertiser Democrat is published weekly (print circulation moved to every other week in 2025) and distributed through print subscription and online at advertiserdemocrat.com, alongside the Sun Journal's regional weeklies network.