Alta Group Newspapers

This article is about a defunct publisher. For the current publisher in Canada, see Alta Newspaper Group.
Alta Group Newspapers Inc.
IndustryNewspapers
Founded1977
DefunctNovember 1996
FateBought
SuccessorCommunity Newspaper Company
HeadquartersBiddeford, Maine
United States
Key people
Alta Whitehouse Foster, founder
Dennis J. Flaherty, president
ProductsJournal Tribune, The Milford Daily News and two other papers

Alta Group Newspapers Inc. was a newspaper publisher in the northeastern United States, overseeing three daily newspapers and one weekly newspaper before being bought and broken up by Community Newspaper Company in 1996.

The company's flagship property was the Journal Tribune in Biddeford, Maine. Its most profitable newspaper was The Milford Daily News in Massachusetts. It also ran The Evening Times of Little Falls, New York, and the weekly The Northern Light in Conway, New Hampshire.