OTTAWAY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS

'Ottaway Community Newspapers' (formerly 'Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.') is a subsidiary of Dow Jones and owns newspapers in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Campbell Hall, New York.
The Ottaway organization was founded in November 1936, when James H. Ottaway, Sr., purchased the Endicott, N.Y., ''Bulletin'', a semi-weekly paper he converted to a daily within a year. Ottaway added the ''Oneonta Star'' in 1944, followed two years later by the ''Pocono Record''. In 1970, his company totaled nine newspapers across the northeastern United States when it merged with Dow Jones.^[1]
Ottaway has sold several newspapers in recent years, however, most recently in December 2006, when the company dealt nearly half its daily newspapers to Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) for $287.9 million (including real estate).^[2]

Contents

Ottaway's Newspapers

Former Newspapers

External link

Footnotes

Ottaway's Newspapers

After the CNHI sale, Ottaway retained eight daily and 15 weekly newspapers in seven U.S. states. Ottaway's circulation was given as 282,000 daily, 316,000 Sunday and 119,000 daily unique visitors on newspaper Internet sites.^[3]
Ottaway's daily newspapers are:

★ The ''Ashland Daily Tidings'' of Ashland, Oregon

★ ''Cape Cod Times'' of Barnstable, Massachusetts

★ The ''Mail Tribune'' of Medford, Oregon

★ The ''Pocono Record'' of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

★ ''The Portsmouth Herald'' of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

★ ''The Record'' of Stockton, California

★ ''The Standard-Times'' of New Bedford, Massachusetts

★ The ''Times Herald-Record'' of Middletown, New York
Ottaway weekly and twice-weekly newspapers include the following:

★ ''The Barnstable Patriot'' of Barnstable, Massachusetts

★ ''The Inquirer & Mirror'' of Nantucket, Massachusetts

★ Hathaway Publishing, published alongside ''The Standard-Times'':

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★ ''The Advocate'' of Fairhaven, Massachusetts

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★ ''The Chronicle'' of Dartmouth, Massachusetts

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★ ''The Fall River Spirit'' of Fall River, Massachusetts

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★ The ''Middleboro Gazette'' of Middleborough, Massachusetts

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★ ''The Spectator'' of Somerset, Massachusetts

★ Seacoast Media Group, published alongside ''The Portsmouth Herald'':

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★ The ''Dover Community News'' of Dover, New Hampshire

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★ ''The Exeter News-Letter'' of Exeter, New Hampshire (twice-weekly)

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★ ''The Hampton Union'' of Hampton, New Hampshire (twice-weekly)

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★ ''The Rockingham News'' of Kingston, New Hampshire

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★ The ''York County Coast Star'' of Kennebunk, Maine

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★ ''The York Weekly'' of York, Maine

Former Newspapers

Until December 2006, the following dailies and weeklies were also part of the Ottaway chain. They are all now part of CNHI.^[3]

★ ''Santa Cruz Sentinel'' daily of Santa Cruz, California

★ ''The News-Times'' daily of Danbury, Connecticut

★ ''The Spectrum'' weekly of Milford, Connecticut

★ The ''Record-Eagle'' daily of Traverse City, Michigan

★ ''The Grand Traverse Herald'' weekly of Traverse City, Michigan

★ The ''Cooperstown Crier'' weekly of Cooperstown, New York

★ The ''Daily Star'' of Oneonta, New York

★ The ''Press-Republican'' of Plattsburgh, New York

★ The ''Daily Item'' of Sunbury, Pennsylvania

★ ''The Danville News'' weekly of Danville, Pennsylvania
The following four daily newspapers were sold by Ottaway to CNHI for $182 million in 2002:^[5]

★ ''The Daily Independent'' of Ashland, Kentucky

★ ''The Free Press'' of Mankato, Minnesota

★ ''The Herald'' of Sharon, Pennsylvania

★ ''The Joplin Globe'' of Joplin, Missouri
Also, Ottaway sold the three daily newspapers of Essex County Newspapers Inc. to ''The Eagle-Tribune'' of North Andover, Massachusetts, in 2002, for $70 million.^[6] ''The Eagle-Tribune'', along with the Essex papers listed below, was later purchased by CNHI.

★ ''Daily News of Newburyport'' of Newburyport, Massachusetts

★ ''Gloucester Daily Times'' of Gloucester, Massachusetts

★ ''Salem Evening News'' of Salem, Massachusetts

External link

Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.

Footnotes

1. DowJones.com Community Media, accessed January 8, 2007.
2. "Dow Jones Completes Sale of Six Local Newspapers." Dow Jones & Company press release, December 5, 2006.
3. "Dow Jones Completes Sale of Six Local Newspapers."
4. "Dow Jones Completes Sale of Six Local Newspapers."
5. Dow Jones To Sell Four Ottaway Newspapers, accessed January 8, 2007.
6. "Bay State Paper Gets to Grow in Its Own Backyard". NewsInc, April 22, 2002. Accessed January 8, 2006.