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GateHouse buys more Mass. papers.

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Byline: Robert Gavin

Dec. 2--GateHouse Media Inc. continued its buying spree yesterday, gobbling two more Massachusetts daily newspapers and several weeklies.

GateHouse, which earlier this year acquired more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers around Boston, agreed to pay about $70 million for the Massachusetts holdings of the Journal Register Co., of Yardley, Pa., the companies said. The papers include the Herald News of Fall River, the Daily Gazette of Taunton, both dailies; the weekly Free-Press of North Attleborough; O Journal, a Portuguese-language publication; and El Latino Expreso, a Spanish-language publication.

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