Ownership Change for Boston Weeklies

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BOSTON Jeff Coakley and Sue O’Connell have purchased Bay Windows and the South End News from their owner of nearly 20 years, Jim Hoover. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The pair will serve as co-publishers of both Boston-based weekly titles. Bay Windows serves the local homosexual, lesbian and transgender community; the South End News is a neighborhood newspaper. Andrew Rapp will continue as editor of both publications. Combined circulation of the papers has been flat of late around 40,000.

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