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| December 02, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Providence Journal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Arthur Kimball-Stanley

Dec. 2--The Journal Register Co. yesterday announced that it was selling its seven Southeastern Massachusetts newspapers to GateHouse Media for $70 million in cash.

The deal will mean new ownership for The Herald News of Fall River and the Taunton Daily Gazette, as well as three weekly newspapers and two shopper publications and leaves uncertain the future of the company's Rhode Island newspapers, including The Pawtucket Times, Woonsocket Call, Kent County Daily Times, and the Warwick Daily Times.

The Journal Register, with a stock price that had dropped by more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year, announced in late August that it was interested in selling its Rhode Island and Massachusetts properties. The owner of 27 daily and 366 non-daily publications,…

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