The Sun Chronicle
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | United Communications Corporation |
| Publisher | Jeff Peterson |
| Editor | Mike Kirby |
| Founded | March 1, 1971 |
| Headquarters | 34 South Main Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts 02703  United States
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| Circulation | 14,216 daily, 15,229 Sunday |
| Website | www.thesunchronicle.com |
The Sun Chronicle (formerly The Attleboro Sun and the Evening Chronicle) is a daily newspaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States. 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.
The Sun Chronicle head office is located at 34 South Main Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
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).
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.
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.
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