The Athol Daily News is a six-day daily (Monday through Saturday) newspaper in north central Massachusetts. The newspaper covers the towns of Athol, Erving, New Salem, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Warwick, and Wendell, Massachusetts.Athol Daily News advertising rate card , accessed December 6, 2006.
History There have been five owners in the history of the Athol Daily News, with three representing generations of the same family.
The Athol Daily News was founded in 1934 when Lincoln O'Brien merged two weeklies, the Athol Chronicle and Athol Transcript. O'Brien sold the paper to Edward T. Fairchild in 1940. On January 1, 1982, Richard J. Chase Sr. bought the newspaper from Fairchild, his father-in-law. The Boston Globe reported at the time that the Daily News' circulation was 5,500."In Brief: Athol Newspaper Sold." The Boston Globe, January 1, 1982.
Richard J. Chase Jr., Fairchild's grandson, took over Athol Press Inc. September 29, 1989. Circulation of the family-owned newspaper at that time was given as 5,700."New Publisher is Announced at Athol News," Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, Mass.), September 30, 1989.
On December 20, 2017, it was publicly announced that Newspapers of New England (NNE) had purchased the paper for an undisclosed amount.
References
External links Athol Daily News Website