Claim: In 1979, K. Presscott Low's family purchased Memorial Press Group, which publishes a chain of weekly newspapers in Boston, Massachusetts, but due to economic problems 30 years later, the family tried to sell the company, which was eventually bought by James F. Plugh.
Evidence: Memorial Press Group, based in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, was a chain of weekly newspapers along the South Shore near Boston, Massachusetts. K. Prescott Low, whose family had published The Patriot Ledger for a century, purchased MPG in 1979 and incorporated it into the privately owned George W. Prescott Publishing Company. Thirty years later, however, in 1997, Low found that "mega-players competing with us" made family ownership of the Ledger and MPG uneconomic, and sought to sell them. A buyer quickly emerged: James F. Plugh, owner of The Enterprise, the Brockton daily newspaper that competed with the Ledger and several MPG papers.