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The current name is the sixth in the newspaper's post-1900 history. Known at the start of 20th century as the Framingham Evening News, it became simply the Framingham News in 1926 and carried that moniker until 1971 when the South Middlesex Daily News was adopted. Two years later that name was shortened to the Middlesex News, which held firm until 1998 and then changed to MetroWest Daily News. Originally locally owned, it was purchased by the Harte-Hanks chain of newspapers, which in turn sold it to a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, which later sold it and nearby suburban newspapers to the Herald. The term MetroWest was coined and adopted by the newspaper as a means of giving its circulation area more of a shared identity than earlier alternatives - "Greater Framingham" (which many towns in the paper's northern coverage area did not feel they belonged to) and "South Middlesex" (which did not apply to towns the paper covered in Worcester and Norfolk counties). Staff writer Greg Supernovich suggested the name - for which he received dinner for two. The online edition of the MetroWest Daily News was launched in September 2001. However, the then Middlesex News was the first general-circulation paper in the U.S. to establish an Internet presence - a gopher site that offered daily headlines and movie and restaurant reviews in 1993. |