Newspaper News

Daniel and Emily McGonigle, Pinchtown Publishing, LLC announce the sale of the Fairfax Standard-Gazette & Messenger (MN) newspaper to David Bonsack and Denise Peterson, D&D Publications, LLC, of Gibbon, (MN) effective Thursday, January 2, 2014. Julie Bergman...

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. today announced the sale of the San Marcos (TX) Daily Record to San Marcos Publishing LP, managed by veteran newspaper executive Jim Moser. Dirks, Van Essen & Murray represented Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. in the...

The Herald, a weekly newspaper in Havana, Florida owned and operated by Nick Bert, has been sold to Mark Pettus, a veteran newspaper publisher from Jacksonville, Florida. The paid community weekly has served the residents of Havana and Gadsden County, a suburb of...

Southern Newspapers Inc., owner of The Bay City Tribune, has purchased the Matagorda Advocate from the Victoria Advocate.Southern Newspapers, Inc., was represented by Rollie Hyde of W. B. Grimes and Company. Southern Newspapers owns 11 community newspapers in Texas,...

Willie Gray, President of Gray and Gray Inc., recently announced the company’s acquisition of the Washington County News, a weekly newspaper published in Chatom, Alabama. Gray has been the owner and publisher of the Citronelle Call News, located in Citronelle, Ala.,...

Eric Buskirk, owner of the Valley Chronicle, Hemet, CA, the Henderson Press, Henderson, NV and Verican, Inc., a newspaper technology company, has purchased the Valley Roadrunner, Valley Center, CA from Shirley and Dale Good. The sale was effective November 29. “I am...

Bell Press, Inc., publishers of weekly newspapers in Barron, Ladysmith and Bloomer, all in northwest Wisconsin, has acquired the nearby 129-year-old Chetek Alert, owned in part by the same family since 1944. Melodee A. Eckerman, who succeeded her mother, Ida Mason, as...

Jeff Jordan, President of Plains Press, Inc., has announced the acquisition of the Castro County News based in Dimmitt, TX. The former owners are Chris and Joye Bradford of Comanche, TX. Jordan currently publishes the Knox City (TX) News, the Newcastle (TX) Post and...

Sale of the Fredericksburg, TX Standard-Radio Post to Moser Community Media (MCM) of Brenham was announced this week by Terry Collier, president of Fredericksburg Publishing Company, Inc. With the ownership change, Collier also announced his retirement as publisher of...

The acquisition by Current Publishing of the award-winning weekly, Monument Newspaper, covering the southwest Maine communities of Gray and New Gloucester, was jointly announced by Current Publisher Lee Hews Casler and Monument Newspaper Publisher Elizabeth Prata. The...

Freedom Communications announced Tuesday that it has reached agreement to sell the Clovis, NM News Journal and its associated publications, including the Portales News-Tribune and Tucumcari’s Quay County Sun, to Clovis Media Inc. “This transaction furthers our goal of...

Heartland Media acquired The Middle Tennessee Times, Smithville, from Main Street Media in April. Heartland Media was founded in 2009 by Richard Lawson. The Middle Tennessee Times publishes weekly on Tuesdays and has a paid circulation of 2,460. It is located in...

The Tuscola Review and Regional. A unique Illinois weekly and shopper combo — well established with sales approaching $800K and cash flowing very nicely. Respected by the community it serves with no direct competition in its market. Solid growth potential. We offer an...

Main Street Media (MSM) has added the Blue Hill (Neb.) Leader its stable of community newspapers, all of which are located in a three-state area consisting of Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas. Rollie Hyde, of W. B. Grimes & Company represented the sellers, Darren and...

Two stalwarts of Oxford County news, the Advertiser-Democrat of Norway, the oldest weekly newspaper in Maine, and the Rumford Falls Times have joined the Sun Journal group of publications following the sale of the two weeklies to the Lewiston-based daily by Howard...

The 114-year old Penobscot Times has been sold by Publisher David Wollstadt to Kirkland Newspapers, Inc. of Durham, NC, Wollstadt has announced. Wollstadt bought the 4,000 circulation Times in 1974 from Barbara McKernan, mother of John Rettie McKernan, Jr., who was a...

Jon Flatland, owner and president of Flatland Publishing Inc., on Wednesday announced the sale of the company to an Iowa-based firm. New Century Press Inc., headquartered in Rock Rapids,IA, has acquired the Steele County Press in Finley and the Griggs County Courier...

John Kolness and Dennis Ding, owners of Extra Media of Moorhead, Minnesota, announced the sale of the company to an Iowa-based firm, New Century Press Inc. of Rock Rapids, IA Julie Bergman of Grimes, McGovern & Associates represented Extra Media in the sale. Extra...