U.S. newspaper group Journal Register Co. is closing dozens of small newspapers, as no buyers have come forward, paidContent reported Thursday.

The company was de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange last year after it defaulted on debt. Journal Register has not disclosed its newspaper closure information to the public. Journal Register owns 27 dailies and 327 non-dailies.
The latest closures were announced Wednesday, according to MediaPost.

In upstate New York, closures include: the Millbrook Round Table, the Voice Ledger of Pleasant Valley, the Gazette-Advertiser of Rhinebeck, the Pawling News Chronicle, the Harlem Valley Times, the Hyde Park Townsman, the Register Herald of Pine Bluffs and the Putnam County Courier, all of which were published by Journal Register's Taconic Press group.

Other New York titles folding include: Weekend, Dutchess Magazine, the Hudson Valley Guide and The Independent, all in New York.

Journal Register has closed several newspapers in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, including the Hershey Chronicle, Northeast Philadelphia Breeze, the News Gleaner, the Olney Times, the Germantown Courier and the Mount Airy Times Express, according to MediaPost.

In Connecticut, the publishing group closed the Bloomfield Journal and the East Hartford Gazette, but the latter was reopened by its editor, Bill Doak, as The Gazette. Journal Register will also soon close: Shoreline Times, Pictorial Gazette, Branford Review, Clinton Recorder and The Advertiser, of East Haven, Media Post reported.

Two Connecticut dailies, the Bristol Press and The Herald of New Britain, were sold to former Newsday executive Mike Schroeder, who also bought the Wethersfield Post, the Newington Town Crier and the Rocky Hill Post, according to Media Post.

Journal Register is planning to close Michigan titles the Grand Traverse Insider, the Leader and Kalkaskian, the Antrim County News and the Petoskey-Charlevoix Star. It has already closed several weekly titles that were part of its Up-North Publications division, such as Town Meeting in Elk Rapids, the Northern Star and the Petoskey Citizen-Journal, Media Post reported.