The combined paper ended in 1995, replaced by two weekly newspapers—the Marlborough Enterprise and Hudson Sun—and the west edition of The MetroWest Daily News, all of which are owned by Community Newspaper Company, now part of GateHouse Media.
[2] Enterprise owners Dustin Lucier and Charles H. Toby bought the Daily Sun in 1922, but the combined Marlborough newsroom continued to publish two separate newspapers until 1993.
[2] In 1984, the papers were transferred to Beacon Communications Corporation, a chain of a dozen weekly newspapers in western Middlesex County, which was purchased that year by the family-owned Telegram.
In 1986, control passed to out-of-state interests for the first time, as the Telegram was sold to Chronicle Publishing Company of San Francisco, California.
At the time, the papers' editor said the move reflected changing reader demographics and would allow for better coverage of state and business news.