CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Karen Randall July 18, 2006

Exhibit 99.1

CONTACT:		FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx		July 18, 2006
000-000-0000 xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx

Xxxxxx To Buy Four Weeklies In Georgia, South Carolina

XXXXXXX, Xx. — Xxxxxx Publishing Group has reached an agreement to acquire The (Barnwell, S.C.) People-Sentinel, The Hampton County (S.C.) Guardian, The (Edgefield, S.C.) Citizen News and the Sylvania (Ga.) Telephone from Community Newspapers, Inc.

The agreement was announced today by Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx XX, president and CEO of Xxxxxx Publishing Group.

“These newspapers are located in our Augusta and Savannah market areas and are a great fit for us,” Xxxxxx said. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to be associated with these terrific newspapers and look forward to serving the readers and advertisers in these wonderful communities.”

Xxx Xxxx, chairman of Community Newspapers, Inc., said, “These papers have served their communities in the finest tradition of community journalism for many years, two of them for more than a century. We are pleased that a newspaper company with the reputation of Xxxxxx Publishing will be involved in preserving that tradition.”

Georgia newspapers owned by Xxxxxx Publishing Group include the dailies The Augusta Chronicle, the Savannah Morning News and the Athens Banner-Herald, and the nondailies The Columbia County News Times, The XxXxxxxx Mirror and The News and Farmer and Xxxxxx Herald/The Jefferson Reporter. Xxxxxx also owns Bluffton Today, a daily newspaper in South Carolina.

Xxxxxx Publishing Group, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xxxxxx Communications Company, LLC, a privately held media company based in Augusta, Ga. Xxxxxx Publishing currently owns and operates 27 daily and 12 nondaily newspapers, four city magazines and numerous free community publications in the Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and Alaska. For more information, visit xxx.xxxxxx.xxx.

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