The Daily News Transcript, serving the Norwood and Dedham communities in Massachusetts, will now serve the areas individually with a new Dedham weekly newspaper and a larger Norwood weekly, the News Transcript announced on its Web site Thursday. Parent company Gatehouse Media said the move will give the communities more thorough and extensive coverage.

The last issue of the Daily News Transcript is set for Friday September 25, from which The Dedham Transcript and the newly titled Norwood Transcript & Bulletin will begin publishing on October 1.
"For the past 36 years, our local staff has worked hard to bring you the best possible local daily newspaper, but we believe it's time to take the paper back to its weekly roots and focus our coverage more deeply on your town," wrote Publisher Greg Reibman.

Richard Daniels, president and chief executive officer of GateHouse Media, New England, said that due to the paper's companion Wicked Local Web sites, focusing on the communities separately in print will enable "even greater depth, and reach far more readers and viewers than ever before."

While the communities will see a physical copy of the newspaper once a week, local news and columns will be updated daily on the respective Web sites.