{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Amherst Bee | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Tabloid | language = American English | founded = 1879 | owners = Bee Group Newspapers | founder = Adam Lorenzo Rinewalt (1849–1902) | publisher = Trey Measer | editor = Bob Kupczyk | circulation = 27,000 | circulation_date = 2018 | circulation_ref = <ref name=Database /> | headquarters = 5564 Main Street<br/>Village of Williamsville | publishing_city = Williamsville | publishing_country = United States | readership = Williamsville, Buffalo | oclc = 12957674 | ISSN = 1095-9432 | website = {{URL|https://www.amherstbee.com/}} }} The '''''Amherst Bee''''' is an American, English language newspaper established in 1879 which serves the Buffalo and Williamsville area of New York, and is part of the Bee Group Newspapers.<ref name=LOC>{{Cite news|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038685/|title=The Amherst bee.|work=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers|access-date=2018-10-11|publisher=Library of Congress|issn=1095-9432}}</ref> It is published weekly on Wednesdays. Its estimated circulation was 27,000 in 2018.<ref name=Database>{{Cite web|url=http://gotoanr.com/database/|title=American Newspaper Representatives|website=gotoanr.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-30}}</ref>
== History == This newspaper was founded in 1879 by Adam Lorenzo Rinewalt.<ref name="Grande 2004">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=guRtSRYt3EwC&q=adam+rinewalt&pg=PT166|title=Amherst|last=Grande|first=Joseph A.|date=2004-09-01|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781439615942|language=en}}</ref> While Rinewalt was in later life deeply engaged in Republican politics, it was initially founded as an independent, nonpartisan paper.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24475743/a_new_paper/|title=A New Paper|date=28 March 1879|work=The Buffalo Commercial|access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref> The paper quickly became the leading journal in the county,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24476030/county_chat/|title=County Chat|date=25 October 1881|work=Buffalo Evening News|access-date=12 October 2018}}</ref> and by 1880, the paper had moved to larger facilities.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24475880/neighborhood_news/|title=Neighborhood News|date=6 March 1880|work=Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express}}</ref>
Rinewalt ran the newspaper until his suicide on October 1, 1902.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24162502/publisher_suicide/|title=Publisher Suicide|work= Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express|date=October 3, 1902 |page=1|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en}}</ref> The paper was taken over by Rinewalt's wife and their son, Allan S. Rinewalt, until March 1907. In 1907, the paper was sold to Frank and his brother George Measer, who had worked for the paper as foreman the two years prior.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24162695/amherst_bee_sold/|title=Amherst Bee Sold|date=22 March 1907|work=Buffalo Evening News|access-date=2018-10-11|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Fiddler-Woite 2009" /> George Measer operated the paper until his death in 1965, when his son George Jr. took it over. It was during George Jr.'s tenure that the Bee Group expanded, opening multiple local papers. After George Jr.'s retirement in 1994 his son, Trey Measer, took over.<ref name="Fiddler-Woite 2009">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOR_CQAAQBAJ&q=george+measer+amherst+bee&pg=PT60|title=Snyder, New York: A Brief History|last=Fiddler-Woite|first=Julianna|date=2009-04-01|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781625843159|language=en}}</ref> Trey remains the publisher, assisted by editor Anna DeRosa.
The ''Amherst Bee'' is known for never missing an issue, including during the Blizzard of '77.<ref name="Fiddler-Woite 2009" /> The first telephone in Amherst was installed at the ''Amherst Bee'' on Main Street.<ref name="Grande 2004" />
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