The ''Enterprise-Sun'', and its predecessors, the ''Hudson Daily Sun'' and ''Marlboro Enterprise'', were
daily newspaper
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s covering the city of
Marlborough
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* Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
** Marlborough College, public school
* Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England
* The Marlborough Science Academy in Hertfordshire, England
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and adjoining town of
Hudson
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* Hudson (surname)
* Henry Hudson, English explorer
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, both in
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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.
The combined paper ended in 1995, replaced by two
weekly newspaper
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s—the ''Marlborough Enterprise'' and ''Hudson Sun''—and the west edition of ''
The MetroWest Daily News
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The newspaper covers several cities and towns in Norfolk, M ...
'', all of which are owned by
Community Newspaper Company, now part of
GateHouse Media.
History
Thomas Hayden began publishing the ''Daily Enterprise'' in 1889, one year after beginning it as a weekly. Across the town line, the ''Hudson Daily Sun'' was founded by William H. Murphy in 1902. The Marlborough paper went through minor name changes, adding and dropping the words "Marlboro" and "Daily" in its name, in its century of publication.
''Enterprise'' owners Dustin Lucier and Charles H. Toby bought the ''Daily Sun'' in 1922, but the combined Marlborough newsroom continued to publish two separate newspapers until 1993. Grace Mada Lucier, Dustin's widow, sold the paper to the rival ''
Worcester Telegram
The ''Telegram & Gazette'' (and ''Sunday Telegram'') is the only daily newspaper of Worcester, Massachusetts
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'' in 1969.
[
In 1984, the papers were transferred to ]Beacon Communications Corporation
Beacon Communications Corp. was a newspaper publisher in Acton, Massachusetts, United States, operating a dozen weekly newspapers as well as daily newspapers in Hudson and Marlborough, Massachusetts. It was bought by Fidelity Investments in 199 ...
, a chain of a dozen weekly newspaper
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s in western Middlesex County, which was purchased that year by the family-owned ''Telegram''. In 1986, control passed to out-of-state interests for the first time, as the ''Telegram'' was sold to Chronicle Publishing Company
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of San Francisco, California
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.
In 1993, Chronicle, looking to concentrate on Worcester County, dealt the Beacon papers to Community Newspaper Company, which would soon become publisher of the dailies' most direct competitor, the ''Middlesex News'' (later to be renamed ''The MetroWest Daily News'').
Demise
Throughout the early 1990s, the ''Enterprise'' and ''Sun'' reinvented themselves in an effort to turn around declining revenues.
Up to the 1980s, both papers came out in the afternoon on weekdays; by then, they were also printing Saturday morning editions. Under the ''Telegram'''s ownership, Marlborough and Hudson converted to all-morning publication July 9, 1990, echoing the ''Telegram'''s closure of its ''Evening Gazette'' sister paper in 1986. At the time, the papers' editor said the move reflected changing reader demographics and would allow for better coverage of state and business news.[ Later that year, only three years after touting increased space for state news, the paper's new editor dropped the ]Associated Press
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wire and began touting "All Local News" as a way to differentiate the ''Enterprise-Sun'' from its competitors.
References
External links
''Hudson Sun'' weekly on WickedLocal.com
''Marlborough Enterprise'' weekly on WickedLocal.com
''The MetroWest Daily News''
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