Please, Mr. Patrick, get your schedulers to get on the ball so you can see the reporters and editors at GateHouse New England before March 9:

Alleges copyright infringement for posting whole copies of articles from GateHouse sites.

Dan Kennedy posts a memo from GateHouse Media New England CEO Rick Daniels announcing the end of cuts put into place over the summer:

... We are in a position to restore the cuts because GHMNE is again generating sufficient cash flows to be clearly and safely in the black. ...

However, he cautioned the chain is not out of the woods yet because the economy continues to suck.

The Globe reports the Dedham newspaper is going from five days a week to one in October.

Dan Kennedy reports the suburban media chain is cutting staff salaries by an average of 7.75% (with the cuts increasing up the corporate ladder) and dramatically reducing the number of towns the Quincy Patriot-Ledger covers (including Plymouth where, ironically, the chain's Wicked Local strategy was born).

The Somerville Journal accuses the Somerville News of plagiarism. And the News wonders just how low the Journal can get - in a comment on the Journal post.

Dan Kennedy provides initial sketchy reports, including the end of free obits - and the people who used to typeset them.

Chad Finn reports among those let go: Longtime MetroWest Daily News sportswriter Lenny Megliola.

Dan Kennedy posts a memo from GateHouse New England Rick Daniels to his troops: On the one hand, GateHouse will fight, fight fight; on the other hand, GateHouse has seen its revenue plunge as well.

Rekha6 gets pulled into an infinite vortex of frustration when trying to get a new password to comment on a Wicked Local story about T fare increases.

Howard Owens, no longer GateHouse Media's online strategist, explains why GateHouse felt it had to sue the Times over boston.com's Your Town sites.