Former Palo Alto Daily News circulation director Joseph Lauletta has returned to the East Coast where he holds the same job for a chain of free daily newspapers, according to free-daily.com. The chain is called Metro (no relation to the San Jose alt-weekly of the same name), which has U.S. editions in Philadelphia, Boston and New York. He was Metro’s circulation director from 2000-05 in Philadelphia and helped launch editions in Toronto, Montreal, Boston and New York. After 2005, Lauletta went on to be Knight Ridder’s national distribution manager for free products and most recently was the circulation director for the Palo Alto Daily News.