The Wellesley Townsman

The Wellesley Townsman

The front page of The Townsman, from 1906
Type	Weekly Newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Wellesley Publishing Company, GateHouse Media.
Editor	Cathy Brauner
Founded	April 1906
Headquarters	Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
Circulation	6,500

The Wellesley Townsman is a paid weekly, local newspaper in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It is currently owned by GateHouse Media.

History[]

Debuting in April 1906, it originally was published on Friday afternoons by the Wellesley Publishing Company.^[1][2] It was one of many New England newspapers acquired by the Community Newspaper Company in the late 1980s, published under The MetroWest Daily News division, later acquired by GateHouse Media. It is currently published online through the Wicked Local network.^[3]

The Townsman was one of the early publishers of Sylvia Plath. Her short story "Victory" appeared in the paper during her teens,^[4] and the paper itself chronicled many of her early achievements.^[5] When Plath died of gas poisoning as result of a suicide, the paper famously misreported the cause of death in the obituary, giving the cause of death as viral pneumonia.^[6]

References[]

This article about a Massachusetts newspaper is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t