COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER CO. p. 24

Posted Saturday, April 24, 1999 12:00 am

By: Vernelle Dorvil

BOB UNGER to editor in chief of the company's metro unit, which includes the weekly TAB publications, from executive editor of the News-Press, in St. Louis, Mo.
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