The Sun Chronicle

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The Sun Chronicle
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	United Communications Corporation
Publisher	Oreste P. D'Arconte
Editor	Mike Kirby
Founded	1971
Political allegiance	Neutral news coverage Very Liberal opinion
Price	USD .50 daily, 1.75 Sunday
Headquarters	34 South Main Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts 02703 USA
Circulation	19,697 daily, 19,998 Sunday in 2004^[1]

Website: www.sunchroniclecom

The Sun Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA. Most of its readers are in Attleboro and North Attleborough, Massachusetts, but it also covers nearby Foxborough, Mansfield, Norfolk, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Wrentham, Massachusetts.

The Sun Chronicle office also publishes the weekly Foxboro Reporter, weekly shopper Entertainment ADvisor, and the Silver City Bulletin in Taunton, Massachusetts.

In 2004, The Sun Chronicle began publishing in the morning after many years as an afternoon newspaper.

[edit] History

The Sun Chronicle was founded in 1971 by Guy Devany, who merged The Attleboro Sun, of which he was publisher, with The Evening Chronicle of North Attleborough. In 1983, Devany died and his editor Paul Rixon took over as publisher of the combined newspaper.^[2]

United Communications Corporation, which owns The Sun Chronicle, bought the Attleboro paper in 1970 and oversaw the merger. The company also owns two other dailies, the Kenosha News of Wisconsin and Watertown Public Opinion of South Dakota.^[3]