Nashoba Publishing

Nashoba Publishing is a weekly newspaper company in the far northwest suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. It is operated by MediaNews Group in common with sister papers the Lowell Sun and Sentinel & Enterprise.

Sisters and competitors

The family that formerly owned Nashoba, headed by publisher Frank J. Hartnett Sr., sold the chain in 2000, for an undisclosed amount of money.[1] Two years later, MediaNews opened a new plant in Devens, Massachusetts, in the middle of Nashoba's coverage area, to print Nashoba's weeklies, The Lowell Sun, and the Sentinel & Enterprise.[2]

Nashoba newspapers' primary competitors are their sister dailies in Fitchburg and Lowell. Additionally, in Harvard, the company competes with a weekly owned by Community Newspaper Company; and in Ayer, Devens, Harvard and Shirley with the daily Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Newspapers

Nashoba's newsroom is operated at the Devens printing plant. Titles published by Nashoba include:

Newspaper	Notes	Website
The Ayer Public Spirit	Covering Ayer; founded in 1869	[1]
Groton Landmark	Covering Groton	[2]
Harvard Hillside	Covering Harvard	[3]
Nashoba Valley Chronicle	Regional news section in Ayer, Groton, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend	[4]
Pepperell Free Press	Covering Pepperell	[5]
Shirley Oracle	Covering Shirley; founded in 1869	[6]
Townsend Times	Covering Townsend	[7]

References

1. Elfland, Mike. "MediaNews to Buy Chain of 6 Weekly Newspapers." Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette, January 21, 2000.
2. Vaznis, James. "Media Company Merging Print Sites; $7M Plan Includes Move to Devens." The Boston Globe, August 1, 2002.