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The ''Sentinel & Enterprise'' is a morning daily newspaper published in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with a satellite news bureau in
Formed in 1973 by the merger of two newspapers covering adjacent cities, the daily traces its lineage back to the ''Fitchburg Sentinel'' (founded 1838) and ''Leominster Enterprise'' (1873).Elfland, Mike. "Sentinel & Enterprise Sale Set." ''Telegram & Gazette'' (Worcester, Mass.), January 8, 1997.
In the 1980s, the paper was known as the ''Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise'', and published only six days a week, Monday through Saturday, in the afternoon. In the later years of this arrangement, the Saturday paper was published in the morning and called the "weekend edition." In 1990, the ''Sentinel & Enterprise'' debuted a Sunday morning edition. The weekday papers remained afternoon publications.
By 1997, the ''Sentinel & Enterprise'' had switched to seven-day morning publication. Its longtime owner, Thomson Corporation, as part of a nationwide divestment of small-market newspapers, sold the Fitchburg paper to MediaNews. No price was released in the transaction between two private companies. Average circulation was given at the time of sale as 19,640, daily, and 20,087 on Sunday.
Following MediaNews' purchase of '' The Sun'' and
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Leominster, Massachusetts
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. The newspaper covers local news in Fitchburg, Leominster and several nearby towns in northern Worcester County and northwest Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is owned by MediaNews Group
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The main competitors to the ''Sentinel & Enterprise'' are the county's largest daily, the ''Telegram & Gazette
The ''Telegram & Gazette'' (and ''Sunday Telegram'') is the only daily newspaper of Worcester, Massachusetts. The paper, headquartered at 100 Front Street and known locally as ''the Telegram'' or the ''T & G'', offers coverage of all of Worceste ...
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; on the west, '' The Gardner News''; and on the east, Nashoba Publishing weeklies and '' The Sun'' of Lowell, also owned by MediaNews.
History
Formed in 1973 by the merger of two newspapers covering adjacent cities, the daily traces its lineage back to the ''Fitchburg Sentinel'' (founded 1838) and ''Leominster Enterprise'' (1873).Elfland, Mike. "Sentinel & Enterprise Sale Set." ''Telegram & Gazette'' (Worcester, Mass.), January 8, 1997.
In the 1980s, the paper was known as the ''Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise'', and published only six days a week, Monday through Saturday, in the afternoon. In the later years of this arrangement, the Saturday paper was published in the morning and called the "weekend edition." In 1990, the ''Sentinel & Enterprise'' debuted a Sunday morning edition. The weekday papers remained afternoon publications.
By 1997, the ''Sentinel & Enterprise'' had switched to seven-day morning publication. Its longtime owner, Thomson Corporation, as part of a nationwide divestment of small-market newspapers, sold the Fitchburg paper to MediaNews. No price was released in the transaction between two private companies. Average circulation was given at the time of sale as 19,640, daily, and 20,087 on Sunday.
Following MediaNews' purchase of '' The Sun'' and Nashoba Publications 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
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weeklies covering several towns between Lowell and Leominster, the company consolidated printing in 2002 for all of these properties at a new $7 million press plant in Devens, Massachusetts
Devens is a regional enterprise zone and census-designated place in the towns of Ayer and Shirley (in Middlesex County) and Harvard (in Worcester County) in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is the successor to Fort Devens, a military post tha ...
. The move was said to have a beneficial effect on traffic in downtown Fitchburg and Lowell.Vaznis, James. "Media Company Merging Print Sites; $7M Plan Includes Move to Devens." ''The Boston Globe'', August 1, 2002.
References
External links
''Sentinel & Enterprise'' Website
Fitchburg, Massachusetts Leominster, Massachusetts Mass media in Worcester County, Massachusetts MediaNews Group publications Sentinel and Enterprise (Fitchburg) Newspapers established in 1838 1838 establishments in Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-newspaper-stub