UPFRONT

Journal Sells Select Assets
MILWAUKEE—The community newspapers and shoppers subsidiary of Journal Communications has agreed to sell its publishing and printing assets in Vermont, Connecticut and Ohio. The sales price for the assets, including an earlier sale of Louisiana-based holdings, is roughly $30 million. Journal Community Publishing Group signed agreements to sell its Connecticut and Vermont clusters to Hersam Acorn Community Publishing. The operations being sold consist of two printing facilities, 11 community newspapers and five shoppers.