The MetroWest Daily News of Framingham, Mass., a GateHouse Media property, selected Publishers Circulation Fulfillment Inc. as its sole newspaper home delivery partner.

www.pcfcorp.com

German color management vendor Techkon opened up a U.S. office to sell, support and promote its line of products in North and South America. The office, headed by Monaco Systems founder George Adam, is located at 248 Main Street, Reading, MA 01867.  Phone: 781.942.0944.

www.techkon.com



 

Journal Community Publishing Group Inc. completed the sale of its New England operations, announced in June.

Hersam Acorn Community Publishing LLC acquired the assets of JCPG’s Connecticut and Vermont clusters consisting of 11 community papers, two printing facilities in Trumbull, Conn., and Bennington, Vt., and five shoppers.

The Chicago Tribune said it will begin delivering the Chicago Sun-Times and nine affiliated suburban newspapers to subscribers in northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana. Carriers will begin delivering the papers this fall, said Tony Hunter, the Tribune’s senior vice president of circulation and operations.

The Tribune already oversees Chicago-area delivery of a dozen other newspapers.

MediaNews Group combined the editorial staffs of most of its northern California papers into one operation in an effort to control costs. News staffers at the San Mateo County Times, Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune, Tri-Valley Herald, Valley Times, San Ramon Valley Times, East County Times, West County Times, The (Hayward) Daily Review and The (Fremont) Argus will be part of Bay Area News Group-East Bay, according to California Newspapers Partnership, which owns the newspapers. Some weekly papers are also affected by move.

Oswego County Weeklies of Mexico, N.Y., outsourced the printing of its papers The Independent Mirror in Mexico, The Citizen Outlet in Central Square, The Phoenix Register, The Salmon River News in Pulaski, The Oswego Shopper and The Hometown News, which is inserted into the each of the weeklies.

AdSend opened its U.S. headquarters in Cranbury, N.J. Vio Worldwide acquired AP AdSend in December. Vio employees were previously located in Roseland, N.J., while AP AdSend employees in New York City and Cranbury.

AdSend’s new address is: 1010 Interchange Plaza, Suite 102, Cranbury, NJ  08512. The phone number is 800.223.7363.

www.adsend.com