The Wellesley Townsman is a paid weekly, local newspaper in

Wellesley, Massachusetts Wellesley () is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Wellesley is part of Greater Boston. The population was 29,550 at the time of the 2020 census. Wellesley College, Babson College, and a campus of Massachusetts Bay Communit ...

. It is currently owned by GateHouse Media.

History

Debuting in April 1906, it originally was published on Friday afternoons by the Wellesley Publishing Company. It was one of many New England newspapers acquired by the Community Newspaper Company in the late 1980s, published under The MetroWest Daily News division, later acquired by GateHouse Media. It is currently published online through the Wicked Local network. The Townsman was one of the early publishers of

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, '' Th ...

. Her short story "Victory" appeared in the paper during her teens, and the paper itself chronicled many of her early achievements. When Plath died of gas poisoning as result of a suicide, the paper famously misreported the cause of death in the obituary, giving the cause of death as viral pneumonia.

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