Mr. Michael Schroeder has a purchase agreement with the Journal Register Co. for both The New Britain Herald and the Bristol press along with the weekly papers that include the Newington Crier, The Wethersfield Post, and The Rocky Hill Post.
all the Newspapers throughout our state made their announcement of this great news for the New Britain and Bristol areas.
The entity making the purchase is the Central Connecticut Communications a corporation which was formed to facilitate the purchase and is owned by Mr. Schroeder.
Another development announced today by the Record-Journal that have made an agreement with the The Republican Company of Springfield, Mass to do their future printing of their newspapers allowing the layoffs 17 full time employees and 28 part time positions and that seven full time and four part time employees in other departments will also see their layoff slips.
The Record-Journal is only part of the story or example that all the newspapers are facing with the sad drop of readership and advertising due to the bad economic times they are all facing.
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It goes to show you how little the public cares about the Herald, that this article has been posted here for 2 days and no one even has any comments to offer on the saving of this paper.
The general public just doesn't seem to care one way or another if the Herald folds up! I do recall that many of the previous comments were things like "good riddance." Others seemed to be of the opinion that it was worth the sacrifice just to get rid of Rick Guinness.
Mr. Schroeder a former Editor of Long Island's Newsday which had news for every area of towns the newspaper covered.
I looking forward to that former editor as the new owner of these two papers to inject the same type of news service that he provided his Long Island readers.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Deal to buy paper may be signed Monday
The word around the paper is that the deal to sell The Bristol Press, New Britain Herald and three weeklies to Mike Schroeder and his silent partner should be finalized on Monday.
Let's hope the Journal Register Co., the current owner, doesn't find a way to muck it up.
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Posted by Steve Collins at 1/16/2009 11:56:00 AM
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