Athol Daily News

The Athol Daily News is a six-day daily newspaper (Monday through Saturday) covering the North Quabbin region towns of Athol, Erving, New Salem, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Warwick, and Wendell, Massachusetts.

The paper was founded in 1934 when Lincoln O'Brien merged two weeklies, the Athol Chronicle and the Athol Transcript. O'Brien sold the paper to Edward T. Fairchild in 1940, and Richard J. Chase Sr. bought it on January 1, 1982; the Chase family retained ownership of the paper's longtime building on Exchange Street until selling it to the Athol-Orange Housing Authority in 2025, three years after the newsroom itself closed the building in December 2019. The paper is now owned by Newspapers of New England.

The Daily News covers town government, schools, and community life across the North Quabbin region, with a digitized archive of more than 312,000 pages dating to 1934.

Content is available through print and online subscription at atholdailynews.com, including a daily e-edition, morning newsletter, and archival story access for subscribers.