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Taunton Gazette
The ''Taunton Daily Gazette'' (and ''Taunton Sunday Gazette'') is a daily newspaper founded in 1848. Based in Taunton, Massachusetts, its coverage area also includes Berkley, Rehoboth, Dighton, Lakeville, Norton, and Raynham. On December 1, 2006, Journal Register Company announced it would sell the ''Gazette'', along with the ''Fall River Herald News'', to GateHouse Media.Journal Register Company Agrees to Sell Massachusetts Newspapers ". Press release. Journal Register Company, December 1, 2006. Since early 2007, the ''Gazette'' has been published as part of GateHouse Media New England. See also * Bristol County, Massachusetts * |
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Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the Bishops of Winchester. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the Museum of Somerset and Somerset Military Museum. For the Second Cornish uprising of 1497, Perkin Warbeck brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497. On 20 June 1685 the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England here in a rebellion, defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall. The Grand Western Canal reached Taunton in 1839 and the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1842. Today it hosts Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset County Cricket Club, is the base of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, and is home to the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office on Admiralty Way. The popular Taunton flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton, Massachusetts
Norton is a New England town, town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, and contains the villages of Norton Center, Massachusetts, Norton Center and Chartley, Massachusetts, Chartley. The population was 19,202 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Home of Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Wheaton College, Norton hosts the Dell Technologies Championship, a golf tournament, tournament of the PGA Tour held annually on the Labor Day holiday weekend at the TPC Boston golf club. History Winnecunnet Lake was an ancient fishing, hunting, and camping site known for thousands of years by Indigenous Pokanoket and Mattakeeset families. In the old days before dams and other obstructions, rivers running gently into the lake and swamplands around it provided canoe routes north to Lake Massapoag and south to the Taunton River. Growing tall in the lowlands along two of Norton’s main waterways—Wading and Rumford—- and continuing further a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Massachusetts
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Massachusetts
This is a list of newspapers in Massachusetts, including print and online. Daily newspapers :''This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in Massachusetts. For weekly newspapers, see List of newspapers in Massachusetts.'' Non-daily newspapers College newspapers * ''The Amherst Student'' – Amherst College * '' The Beacon'' – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts * '' The Beacon'' – Merrimack College * '' The Berkeley Beacon'' – Emerson College * '' The Comment'' – Bridgewater State University * '' The Connector'' – UMass Lowell * ''The Daily Collegian'' – UMass Amherst * ''The Daily Free Press'' – Boston University * ''The Harvard Crimson'' – Harvard University * '' The Heights'' – Boston College The Hubâ€Emmanuel College* ''The Independent'' – Harvard University * '' The Justice'' – Brandeis University * ''The Massachusetts Daily Collegian'' – University of Massachusetts Amherst * '' The Mass Media'' – University of Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Taunton Call
''The Taunton Call'' was a free newspaper that was delivered weekly to the residents of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, by Gatehouse Media. The newspaper covered local news and other materials in and for the residents of the city. In July 2008 Gatehouse Media, owner of ''The Taunton Call'' announced it was ending publication of the paper. The last edition of ''The Taunton Call'' was July 16, 2008.Last Call. (2008, July 16). ''Taunton Call, The (MA)'', p. 8. Available from NewsBank: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/1222A13B35A2A6E0. History The Taunton Call was founded in 2003 by three female journalists, Eva Gaffney, Donna Nuttall, and Lyn Pelletier, along with two other free weeklies (''The Raynham Call'' and ''The Lakeville Call'') as part of the larger Call Group, Inc. In 2005, the three weeklies were sold to Memorial Press Group, which was in turn acquired by Community Newspaper Company (CNC) in 2006 (which itself was bought by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Taunton Area
200px, A map of the Greater Taunton Area The Greater Taunton Area is the suburban area surrounding the city of Taunton, in northeastern Bristol County, Massachusetts. It comprises various present-day municipalities that were once under the jurisdiction of Taunton in Colonial America. These present-day municipalities include the towns of Berkley, Dighton, Norton, and Raynham. See also *Berkley, Massachusetts * Bristol County, Massachusetts *Dighton, Massachusetts *Dighton Rock and Dighton Rock State Park *Massasoit State Park *Norton, Massachusetts *Raynham, Massachusetts *Silver City Galleria *Taunton, Massachusetts * Taunton River *Taunton River Watershed An USGS map of the Taunton River Watershed The Taunton River watershed or ''Taunton River basin'' is made up of of rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands in southeastern Massachusetts, US. It is the second largest watershed in the state. A ... External links Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol County, Massachusetts
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England. The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as (Old English: 'the place at the bridge'). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fall River Herald News
The smaller of the two main newspapers in Massachusetts' South Coast, ''The Herald News'' is a daily newspaper based in Fall River, Massachusetts. Its coverage area includes Fall River and the nearby towns of Dighton, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts; as well as Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island. ''The Herald News'', formerly owned by Journal Register Company, was sold in December 2006 to GateHouse Media, which owns several daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts.Gavin, Robert. "GateHouse Buys More Mass. Papers." ''The Boston Globe'', December 2, 2006. Sisters and competitors ''The Herald News''' main competitor to the east is '' The Standard-Times'' of the other South Coast city, New Bedford, Massachusetts. In its northern towns, ''The Herald News'' competes with the '' Taunton Daily Gazette'', although the two were both owned by Journal Register and sold together to GateHouse. Before the GateHouse sale, ''The Herald News'' was part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Register Company
21st Century Media was an American media company. It was the successor of Ingersoll Publications and Journal Register Company, and it was succeeded by Digital First Media. The company operated more than 350 multi-platform products in 992 communities. On April 5, 2013, the assets of Journal Register Company and its affiliates were sold to 21st CMH Acquisition Co. The Journal Register Company then became known as 21st Century Media. The company was led by CEO John Paton. He argued that the Journal Register needed to transform from a newspaper company to a "digital first, print last" company. Paton, formerly CEO of ImpreMedia, initiated this change on February 1, 2010, by announcing he would provide all reporters with Flip video cameras as a sign of his commitment to the company's digital transformation. In 2013, MediaNews Group and 21st Century Media merged into Digital First Media. Digital First Media is owned by Alden Global Capital. Properties The company owned daily an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raynham, Massachusetts
Raynham () is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately south of Boston and northeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 15,082 at the 2020 census. It has one village, Raynham Center. History The area that is now Raynham was settled in 1639 as a part of Taunton, and was founded by Elizabeth Pole, the first woman to found a town in America. It was to that area three years earlier that Roger Williams, proponent of separation of church and state, of paying Indians for land acquired and abolishing slavery, had escaped, traveling 55 miles during a January blizzard. He was fleeing a conviction for sedition and heresy of the General Court of Salem, and it was here that the local Wampanoags offered him shelter at their winter camp. Their Sachem Massasoit hosted Williams for the three months until spring. In 1652, bog iron was found along the Two Mile (Forge) River. Soon after, the Taunton Iron Works was established by residents Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakeville, Massachusetts
Lakeville is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 11,523 at the 2020 census. History Native Americans inhabited southern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas, and Lakeville is a site with significant indigenous history. ''Soewampset'' is listed as a noted habitation in a 1634 list of settlements in New England, suggesting that Assawompset Pond may take its name from a former Wampanoag settlement on its banks. The Wampanoag Royal Cemetery is located in modern-day Lakeville on a peninsula between Little and Great Quittacas Pond. King Philip's War In 1675, the body of John Sassamon, advisor to Governor Josiah Winslow, was discovered beneath the ice of Assawompset Pond. He was believed to have been murdered, and three Native Americans were arrested. On the testimony of only one witness (contrary to English law, which required the testimony of at least two witnesses in a murder trial), the thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
