The Sun, also known as The Lowell Sun, is a daily newspaper based in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, serving towns in Massachusetts around the Greater Lowell area and beyond. As of 2011, its average daily circulation was about 42,900 copies. It is owned by MediaNews Group of Colorado, which is owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
The November 5, 2008 front page of The Sun
The former Lowell Sun headquarters, as viewed from East Merrimack Street. Lowell City Hall is visible in the background.
Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, United States. Alongside Cambridge, it is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area, called Greater Lowell, and of New England's Merrimack Valley region.
Image: Lowell City Hall; Lowell, MA; southwest side; 2011 08 20
Image: Mill Building (now museum), Lowell, Massachusetts
Image: Coburn Hall
Image: Lowell skyline