The daily paper covers a few urban communities and towns in Norfolk and Worcester regions, however until 1998 it was named for Middlesex County or for the town of Framingham (through the vast majority of the mid-twentieth century, as the Framingham News).
Initially a by regional standards claimed night daily paper, the News was bought by the Harte-Hanks daily paper chain as its first attack into Massachusetts news coverage, in 1972.
By 1986, the paper sold 49,000 duplicates every day and 55,000 on