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Executive suite: At American Community Newspapers LLC of Minneapolis, Scott Wright has been named group publisher in charge of the company's 14 papers in North Texas; previously Wright was general manager of the Oakland Press in Michigan. Wright began his career at the Daily Reporter in Greenfield, Ind., and worked as an advertising executive with the Evansville Courier and Press, the Joplin Globe and was corporate advertising director for Ottaway Newspapers. Before joining the Press, Wright was vice president and chief operating officer of the Suburban Journals of St. Louis. ... At Block Communications Inc. of Toledo, Ohio (The Blade, Pennsylvania's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Allan Block has been named chairman; previously he was the company's managing director. Additionally, Block will continue as chairman of the family-owned company's cable television and broadcast divisions. Block replaces his cousin, William Block Jr., who will remain on the company's board of directors and its executive committee. ...

Georgia on my mind: At the Savannah Morning News, Julian Miller has been named publisher; previously he was president of the Augusta Chronicle, also of Georgia (both are Morris Publishing papers). Miller has been at the Chronicle for 24 years -- he joined the paper as city editor and rose through the ranks to become assistant managing editor, assistant general manager and general manager; he's been president since 2002. Earlier in his career, Miller was a reporter and editor at Georgia's Valdosta Daily Times and managing editor of the Thomasvile Times-Enterprise. Taking Miller's position at the Chronicle will be Don Bailey, the paper's general manager since 2002. Bailey joined Morris in 1992 as classified manager of the Chronicle and moved to the Morning News as ad director in 1996. He started his career as an advertising intern at the Macon Telegraph. ...

Publishers: At the Daily Iowegian in Centerville, Becky Maxwell has been named publisher; previously she was the paper's general manager. A Centerville native, Maxwell's entire nine-year newspaper career has been at the Iowegian, where she has worked mostly in sales. ... At The Herald of Circleville, Ohio, Steve Davies has been named publisher; most recently he was retail sales manager of the Columbus Dispatch. A 20-year newspaper veteran, Davies has worked at papers in Connecticut and Ohio. ... At Kansas' Augusta Daily Gazette, Len Hudson has been named publisher; he will continue as publisher of the nearby El Dorado Times. An Augusta native, Hudson started with the paper at age 12 as a carrier. He worked at papers in Fredonia and Pratt before returning to the Gazette as advertising manager in the 1980s. ... At The Times of Northwest Indiana, in suburban Gary, Kevin Mowbray has been named publisher; previously he was vice president of sales and marketing at Lee Enterprises Inc. and he will remain a vice president of Lee in his new job. In 18 years with Lee, Mowbray has worked at papers in Illinois, Montana and Nebraska, and as national sales manager for corporate sales and marketing in Chicago. Most recently he was publisher of the Bismarck Tribune in North Dakota between 2000 and 2002. ...

Front office: At the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Alex Taylor has been named vice president and business manager; previously he was with the paper's automotive ad group. Earlier in his career, Taylor was a reporter and editor at Texas' Austin American-Statesman and the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo. ... At The Advocate-Messenger in Danville, Ky., Scott Schurz Jr. has been named assistant publisher; previously he was manager of special publications for Indiana's South Bend Tribune. Earlier in his career, Schurz was a sports writer at The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind., and a sales executive at Associated Desert Shoppers in Palm Desert, Calif. (all are Schurz Communications Inc. papers). ... At the Miami Herald, Carlos Abaunza has been named vice president for strategic planning; previously he was vice president and controller of the paper's parent company, Knight Ridder of San Jose. Earlier, Abaunza was vice president for finance and chief financial officer of the paper. ... At Community Newspaper Co. of Needham, Mass., Al Getler has been named vice president of circulation; previously he was vice president of marketing and circulation for the Newspaper Network of Central Ohio (The Advocate, Newark, Times Recorder, Zanesville, et. al). Earlier, Getler was a circulation executive at papers in Troy, N.Y., Atlantic City, N.J., and Hackensack, N.J. ... At Minnesota's Austin Daily Herald, Jason Schreiber has been named advertising director; previously he was marketing manager at Kraus Foods of nearby Albert Lea. He is a native of the area. ... At The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, Fred Temby has been named advertising manager; previously he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Newspaper Agency Corp. of Salt Lake City. Earlier, Temby was an executive with Shurz Communications at papers in Indiana and Maryland. ...

Indiana editors: At the Herald Bulletin of Anderson, Lisa Allen and Ron Wilkins have been named managing editors. Previously, Allen had been the paper's city editor and joined the paper in 2001; she's a 20-year veteran of newspapers and magazines. Wilkins had been the Herald Bulletin's night city editor and joined the paper in 1992 and earlier had been a reporter and opinion page editor. ... At the Noblesville Daily Times, Bob Hansen has been named editor; previously he was op-ed editor at The Palladium-Item in Richmond, Ind. Before joining the Richmond paper three years ago, Hansen and his wife Pat Hansen owned the weekly Indiana paper, the Hagerstown Exponent. ... At The Post-Tribune of suburban Gary, Paulette Haddix has been named executive editor; previously she was deputy managing editor. A longtime Post-Tribune employee, Haddix was the paper's metro editor and served as a reporter, copy editor and bureau chief. ...

Editors: At Washingtonpost.com, James Brady has been named executive editor; most recently he has been a consultant to the web site. Brady, a longtime Washington Post sports reporter and copy editor, was assistant managing editor of the web site from 1995 to 1998, spending the next five years at America Online in nearby Dulles, Va., where he was vice president of production and operations, executive director of editorial operations and group programming director of news and sports. ...At The Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minn., Matt Merritt has been named managing editor; previously he was managing editor of the Austin Daily Herald, also in Minnesota. Earlier Merritt had been the Daily Herald's city and education reporter. ... # >ET