 In 1986, control passed to out-of-state interests for the first time, as the "Telegram" was sold to Chronicle Publishing Company of San Francisco, California.In 1993, Chronicle, looking to concentrate on Worcester County, dealt the Beacon papers to Community Newspaper Company, which would soon become publisher of the dailies' most direct competitor, the "Middlesex News" (later to be renamed "The MetroWest Daily News").Throughout the early 1990s, the "Enterprise" and "Sun" reinvented themselves in an effort to turn around declining revenues.