Companies change ownership all the time, but this transfer seems to have struck a chord in a nearly 300-year-old city where change comes slowly. The Merrills have been at the helm of this newspaper for generations, and it is odd for us - and perhaps you - to grasp that an end is coming to this newspaper era.
The change wasn't entirely unexpected. Phil Merrill's unfortunate death last year prompted his wife Ellie to think seriously...
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