Founded in 1972 with one paper, the Marshfield Mariner, the group was sold in 1989 to Capital Cities/ABC and again in 1995 to Fidelity Investments, which dissolved it into Community Newspaper Company a few months later.
Today, several of the Mariner papers still publish as part of CNC, now owned by GateHouse Media.
[3] In 1994, Capital Cities announced it would sell all 74 of its newspapers in New England, including the Mariner chain.
[6] Mariner Group was dissolved in early 1996, when CNC realigned its operating units by geography.
[8] For a few months following GateHouse Media's purchase of CNC and Memorial Press Group in 2006, the new sister companies continued to publish competing titles in several South Shore towns.