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The '''''Monadnock Ledger-Transcript''''' is a twice-weekly [[newspaper]] based in [[Peterborough, New Hampshire|Peterborough]], [[New Hampshire]], and covering the [[Monadnock Region]]. It was formed in September 2006, when the 50-year-old ''Monadnock Ledger'' bought the 150-year-old ''Peterborough Transcript''.
Both newspapers had published once a week. As of 2021, the ''Ledger-Transcript'' publishes print editions two days a week with a continuously updated website. It is owned by [[Newspapers of New England, Inc.]], a privately owned publisher of nine daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
In 2010, the ''Monadnock Ledger-Transcript'' was named the Newspaper of the Year by the New England Press Association.
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== Peterborough Transcript ==
The ''Peterborough Transcript'' was founded in 1849, and remained the only local weekly newspaper in Peterborough for more than a century. It was owned by the Cummings family from 1900 until September 2006, when it was bought by the competing ''Monadnock Ledger'', and became part of the ''Monadnock Ledger-Transcript''.
In a story announcing the merger, then-publisher Joe Cummings described the paper's history:
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The ''Monadnock Ledger'' started in the mid-1950s as a company newsletter for [[New Hampshire Ball Bearings]]. Richard Noyes converted the newsletter into a tabloid weekly based in [[Jaffrey, New Hampshire|Jaffrey]] and then into a full-size newspaper coming out twice a week, as the ''Jaffrey Ledger'' one day and the ''Peterborough Ledger'' some days later.<ref>''Our Changing Town: Peterborough 1939-1989'', page 168, Peterborough Historical Society. Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, NH, 1996.</ref> It later changed to a weekly.
The Ledger was bought by Newspapers of New England in 1986.
==References==
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== External links ==
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[[Category:Newspapers published in New Hampshire]]
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