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''The Sun Chronicle'' (formerly ''The Attleboro Sun'' and the ''Evening Chronicle'') is a daily newspaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA. Most of its readers are in Attleboro and North Attleborough, Massachusetts, but it also covers nearby Foxborough, Mansfield, Norfolk, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Wrentham, Massachusetts. ''The Sun Chronicle'' office also publishes the weekly ''Foxboro Reporter'', weekly shopper ''Entertainment ADvisor'', and the ''Silver City Bulletin'' in Taunton, Massachusetts. In February 2005, ''The Sun Chronicle'' began publishing in the morning after decades as an afternoon newspaper.〔Reilly, Tom. "Welcome to Journalism 101." ''The Sun Chronicle'' (Attleboro, Mass.), February 22, 2005.〕 == Beginnings == ''The Sun Chronicle'' was founded in 1971 by Guy S. DeVany, who merged ''The Attleboro Sun'' (1889–1971), of which he was publisher, with ''The Evening Chronicle'' of North Attleborough (1871–1971). An advertisement on the back cover of the 12-page final edition of ''The Attleboro Sun'' declared: "The new ''Sun Chronicle'' will be an adventure in print . . . stimulating . . . provocative . . . at times disturbing . . . always interesting." The 20-page first issue of ''The Sun Chronicle'' was published on March 1, 1971.〔Advertisement. ''The Attleboro Sun'' (Attleboro, Mass.), p. 12, February 27, 1971.〕 The North Attleborough ''Evening Chronicle'' began February 3, 1871 as ''The Attleborough Chronicle'', a 4-page weekly founded by Walter Phillips, a Providence newspaperman whose wife was Attleboro native Francena Capron. Phillips moved the newspaper's headquarters to North Attleboro in January 1873. Its name was changed to the North Attleborough ''Evening Chronicle'' in 1887, when the town of North Attleborough split from Attleboro.〔"Sun Chronicle Combination of Dedication, Tradition." ''The Sun Chronicle'' (Attleboro, Mass.), p. 1, March 1, 1971.〕 ''The Attleboro Sun'' published its first issue September 3, 1889. For decades the two papers were friendly rivals. The ''Chronicle'' was a small newspaper with big connections; for most of its history, its publisher was the prominent Republican Congressman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., who served in the House from 1925 to 1967 and was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1955. Martin ran the ''Chronicle'' for six decades, and gave North Attleboro a reputation for conservatism. The ''Attleboro Sun'', for its part, was sold by a group of local businessmen in 1906 to John S. Vallette, an advertising salesman for ''The Providence Journal''. He appointed a 19-year-old reporter, Charles C. Cain, Jr., as the paper's editor. Vallette expanded the newspaper's reach, and pushed for Attleboro to adopt a city form of government, which it did in 1914. Then in 1929, Cain became the newspaper's publisher, and in 1933 he appointed Clarence D. Roberts as editor. Roberts remained with the paper for about half a century, in later years contributing columns from Florida. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sun Chronicle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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