by: Sarah Coffey | boston.com

wner Josh Cutler says he intends to step down as publisher of the Duxbury Clipper at the end of the year and divest his interest in the weekly newspaper, as he prepares to be sworn in as state representative in January.

Cutler was elected in November as the first Democrat to represent the Sixth Plymouth District, which encompasses all of Pembroke and Hanson and four precincts in Duxbury. Cutler’s family has published the Clipper, an independent, family-run town newspaper founded by his grandparents John and Roberta “Bobbie” Cutler, since 1950.