NATCHEZ — Salisbury Newsmedia, LLC, an affiliate of Boone Newspapers, Inc., with offices in Natchez and Tuscaloosa, Ala., completed its purchase of The Salisbury (N.C.) Post Thursday.

Majority owners of the newly formed company are BNI and Carpenter Newsmedia, LLC, a company owned by BNI’s president and chief operating officer, Todd H. Carpenter, of Natchez.

The Post, a seven-day daily newspaper with paid circulation of 15,800 daily and 17,200 Sunday, serves Salisbury (population 33,622) and Rowan County (population 138,446), located halfway between Charlotte and Greensboro in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. The purchase from Evening Post Industries of Charleston, S.C., also included two weekly newspapers, The Davie County Enterprise-Record and The Clemmons Courier, and related websites.

BNI and Carpenter Newsmedia, along with members of BNI’s management team own and BNI manages 56 newspapers, 27 community magazines and related websites in similar-sized communities in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Minnesota, Ohio and Michigan, including The Natchez Democrat, The Vicksburg Post and The (Brookhaven) Daily Leader in Mississippi. James B. Boone Jr., of Tuscaloosa, is BNI’s chairman and chief executive officer.

BNI has a rich history of quality newspapers and other publications in the communities it serves, explained in part by Boone’s corporate philosophy: “We seek to produce the highest quality product the economics of the community served can support. And then, by ingenuity and imagination, we strive for a higher quality in an effort to serve and build that community.”

Carpenter said Salisbury Newsmedia “will work hard to meet its every obligation to readers, customers, employees and all who have a stake in Salisbury.”