Enterprise-Sun
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Community Newspaper Company |
| Publisher | Asa Cole |
| Editor | Jon Towne |
| Founded | September 4, 1889, as Daily Enterprise |
| Ceased publication | September 14, 1995 (converted to weeklies) |
| Headquarters | 230 Maple Street, Marlborough, Massachusetts 01752, United States |
| Circulation | 6,000 in 1995 |
| OCLC number | 34945395 |
The Enterprise-Sun, and its predecessors, the Hudson Daily Sun and Marlboro Enterprise, were daily newspapers covering the city of Marlborough and adjoining town of Hudson, both in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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.
Thomas Hayden began publishing the Daily Enterprise in 1889, one year after beginning it as a weekly. Across the town line, the Hudson Daily Sun was founded by William H. Murphy in 1902. The Marlborough paper went through minor name changes, adding and dropping the words "Marlboro" and "Daily" in its name, in its century of publication.
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. Grace Mada Lucier, Dustin's widow, sold the paper to the rival Worcester Telegram in 1969.
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.
In 1993, Chronicle, looking to concentrate on Worcester County, dealt the Beacon papers to Community Newspaper Company, which would soon become publisher of the dailies' most direct competitor, the Middlesex News (later to be renamed The MetroWest Daily News).
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