Boston neighborhood newspaper ends publication with a whimper as chain exits city

GateHouse's Transcript Tab, smushed unneurotic retired of 2 papers successful 2019 to service 2 sets of Boston neighborhoods with small successful common, has sighed its last and softly disappeared into the pages of history.

The older of the 2 archetypal papers, the Parkway Transcript, published its archetypal variation connected Feb. 29, 1930, with a absorption connected Roslindale, according to a 1970s past of the neighborhood by Richard W. Davis, who took implicit the insubstantial from his father. The Allston/Brighton Tab dates to 1981.

Gatehouse says readers of what had been an emaciated play from the commencement tin proceed to glean what small Allston/Brighton, Roslindale and West Roxbury quality it deigns to people connected its Wicked Local TranscriptTab Web site. Today the lone communicative straight astir the 4 neighborhoods connected the site's location leafage is buried mode down connected the leafage and is an ouroborean announcement astir the insubstantial shutting down.

The 4 neighborhoods proceed to beryllium covered successful people by the Bulletin, an autarkic concatenation based successful Norwood.

H/t Gary, 1 of the paper's past existent readers.