 No price was released in the transaction between two private companies.Average circulation was given at the time of sale as 19,640, daily, and 20,087 on Sunday.Following MediaNews' purchase of "The Sun" and Nashoba Publications weeklies covering several towns between Lowell and Leominster, the company consolidated printing in 2002 for all of these properties at a new $7 million press plant in Devens, Massachusetts.