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Blount Today and Knoxville Magazine Close

The Knoxville News Sentinel announced on October 10th, 2011 that it was discontinuing the publishing of the Blount Today and the Knoxville Magazine.  The Blount Today was distributed twice weekly, on Monday and Thursdays.  It's last day will be Thursday, October 13th.  The Knoxville Magazine is a monthly publication and will cease publishing after the November issue.

Perry County Good News

The Perry County Good News, a weekly publication in Perry County, Ohio, announced it has closed for business effective the week of 10/3/2011.

Ozaukee Sunday Post Closes

Lakeshore Newspapers closed the Ozaukee Sunday Post on September 25th, 2011, in order to focus on their Ozaukee Guide product.

McMinnville Village Advocate Closed

The McMinnville Village Advocate, a weekly free publication with approximately 28,000 circulation closed in August 2011.

Gay Chicago Switches to Bi-Weekly

Gay Chicago, an gay entertainment weekly in the Chicago area, switched from weekly distribution to bi-weekly distribution on September 21st, 2011.

Centralia Chronicle to Drop to Three Day Distribution

The Centralia Chronicle announced that effective November 1st, it will cease publishing Monday through Saturday, and will instead publish only on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Hemet Valley Chronicle Sold and to Remain Open

The Hemet Valley Chronicle has been sold to a Nevada newspaper group and will remain open.  Last week the Century Group had announced it was closing the publication.

Hemet Valley Chronicle to Close

The Hemet Valley Chronicle, a community paper owned by Century Group Newspapers, will cease publishing after its September 16th, 2011 edition.  The Valley Chronicle was launched in 2001, and has a weekly circulation of approximately 27,000.

[Editor Note: On September 15th it was announced the Hemet Valley Chronicle was sold and will remain open]

St. Augustine Underground Closes

Osteen Publishing acquired the Ponte Vedra Recorder, Clay Today and the St. Augustine Underground this week.  The Underground, a monthly publication, was then closed effectively immediately.

Osteen Publishing owns the Sumter Item.

Chicago Tribune Drops Tabloid Single Copy Version

The Chicago Tribune will discontinue its tabloid single copy edition effective September 2, 2011.  The Tribune had launched the tabloid version in 2009 to compete for the Chicago Sun-Times single copy readership.  It would return its single copy to the paper's standard broadsheet format.

CIPS to Deliver Vida en el Valle

CIPS Marketing has reached an agreement with the Fresno Bee to deliver the weekly Hispanic publication Vida en el Valle in the San Joaquin Valley.  It was also announced that CIPS will deliver some of the Fresno Bee's TMC product to the outlying areas.

Western Communications Files Bankruptcy

Western Communications field for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection per an article by David Nogueras at OPB News.  The company hopes to recover from bankruptcy in six months.

Western Communciations owns the Bend Bulletin, along with four other papers in Oregon and two in California.

Bay Area News Group Makes Changes in SF East Bay

The Bay Area News Group announced today The Oakland Tribune will be renamed the East Bay Tribune and their other properties in the San Francisco East Bay Area (West County Times, the Alameda Times-Star, the Daily Review of Hayward and the Argus of Fremont) will also be renamed East Bay Tribune.

The Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, Tri-Valley Herald, San Joaquin Herald, and East County Times will all become known as The Times.   Additionally, the San Mateo County Times will become an edition of the San Jose Mercury News, focusing on Peninsula issues.   The East Bay papers will all retain their own separate local news section that covers its community.  

As part of the consolidation and renaming, BANG says it will eliminate 120 news and production jobs.

Two new weekly newspapers will be launched in the East Bay:  The Valley Journal serving Alamo, Danville, and San Ramon; and the Times-Herald, covering Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton and Sunol.

Chicago Red Eye to Discontinue Saturday

Tribune Company has announced that it will discontinue the Saturday print edition of the Chicago Red Eye, effective September 3, 2011.  The free tabloid will continue to distribute Monday through Friday.

Franklin County Citizen and News Leader Merge

The Franklin County Citizen and the News Leader (Royston) have merged their publications to form the new Franklin County Citizen Leader effective August 25th, 2011.  The two publications both had covered Franklin County, Georgia.

New York Press to Close, Our Town Downtown to Relaunch

Manhattan Media has announced that it will close the alternative weekly the New York Press effective August 25th, 2011.  At the same time, it also stated it was re-opening the Our Town Downtown, a community weekly publication.

Two More Alaskan Newspapers Sold

A few weeks back Calista Corporation announced it was closing all six weekly newspapers in its Alaska Newspaper group.  Calista was able to sell four of the publications before they closed, and last week they announced that they were able to sell the final two, the Seward Phoenix Log and the Tundra Drums, thus allowing all six publications to remain open.

Aurora Sentinel and Metro East Announce Changes

The Aurora Sentinel will cease being a daily publication effective September 8th, 2011, and will convert to a weekly / Thursday-only publication at that time.  The online site will continue to have news for seven days a week.

On that same date, the Buckley Guardian (covering Buckley Air Force Base) will switch from Friday distribution to Thursday distribution.

The Aurora Sentinel will also launch a new publication called Life Science, covering the Fitzsimmons Life Science District in Aurora, Colorado. This publication will target the medical professionals in the area, with 5,000 weekly distribution each Thursday.

Four ASP Westward Publications to Merge

ASP Westward announced today that effective September 8th, 2011, four of its publications will merge together to form the new Cypress Creek Mirror.  The four publications are the Cypress Sun, Cy-Fair Sun, Champions Sun and Klein Sun.  Each of the four publications will last run on September 1st, 2011.