List of Community Newspaper Company weeklies

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Community Newspaper Company published more than 100 weekly newspapers in central and eastern Massachusetts, divided into five geographic units.

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Metro Unit

The Metro papers cover neighborhoods of Boston and close-in suburbs.

North Unit

The following titles, many of them formerly part of the North Shore Weeklies chain, are published out of the North Unit's offices in Beverly:

Northwest Unit

With two main offices in Concord and Lexington, Northwest's core are the Beacon and Minuteman papers from Beacon Communications Corporation, along with some former papers of Century Newspapers and Bay State Newspaper Company. Its newest acquisitions are based in satellite bureaus at CNC's westernmost reach, in Harvard and Clinton.

South Unit

The South Unit includes the "Cape Cod Unit" (which despite the name is supervised by the same editor-in-chief as South) and newspapers acquired from Memorial Press Group and Call Group in 2006. The unit initially comprised papers from Cape Cod Publishing Company and Mariner Group.

Cape Cod

West Unit

Newspapers in the West Unit include all four CNC dailies and a few Framingham-area weeklies published "as editions of The MetroWest Daily News." The non-Daily News West weeklies include titles in Boston's western suburbs -- MetroWest -- as well as several in Norfolk County, southwest and south of the city, and a few farther south in Bristol County.

Daily News editions

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