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James Ewing, 85; longtime owner of Keene Sentinel
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James D. Ewing, a co-owner of The Keene (N.H.) Sentinel for nearly four decades and an influential voice on issues ranging from government reform to social services to international journalism training, died yesterday at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene.He was 85.
As publisher of the Sentinel, he successfully campaigned for a wide range of local and state-level causes, including land-use planning, freedom of information, and public services for the needy.
Mr. Ewing was born in St. Louis and grew up in New Jersey and the Bronx.
After graduating from Princeton in 1938, he studied at Harvard Law School for a year before leaving to teach Latin and Greek at the Taft School in Watertown, Conn.
In 1941, he became a mediation officer for the National War Labor Board in Washington, where he met his future wife, Ruth Dewing of Cambridge, who was a civilian mediator on the board.They married in 1943.
Shortly thereafter, he enlisted in the Navy and monitored labor relations in factories that produced war materials.
After the war, the Ewings and a friend purchased the Bangor (Maine) Evening Commercial, a small daily newspaper.