Re: My local newspaper

Boehm Collector · ‎03-09-2010

@catter70 wrote:
I just heard last night on the news that my local newspaper is going fully digital starting in Feb. 2025. No more printed paper. Too costly to do print anymore. Yes, I know, print is old school but I enjoy looking at it every morning. I've subscribed for over 50 years and and also my parents always subscribed, so I grew up looking at that paper. I just renewed it last month for a one year subscription, so I sure hope that money will be refunded as there was no mention made of this on the news or in this mornings paper. I called CS yesterday afternoon and they didn't know about it.

@catter70 ... do you live in New Jersey? Becaause I heard that The Star Ledger, Trenton Times, South Jersey Times, Easton Express-Times and the weekly Hunterdon County Democrat will all go to digital format only in February 2025. The Jersey Journal will close entirely.

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

Our local paper went down to reduced publication days. We now do not have a printed newspaper on Tuesday or Sunday.The online version publish on Tuesday, there is one online paper for the "Weekend Edition". Advertising dollars have shrunk, cost of the paper to print on have risen. . . And here in our small town advertisers have closed shops. The internet is a vicious adversary.

Lynn-Critter Lover!
(especially cats!)

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

We stopped the daily newspaper a really long time ago when it was going from the front door right into the recycling bin because we had no time to look at it.

We would pick up just the Sunday paper for the sale circulars and coupons but like someone upthread said, Covid killed that and don't even do that anymore.

We do get grocery sale circulars in the mail and the coupon circular they include is laughable. They're all health and beauty coupons, nothing for food anymore.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

In my area, one of the largest newspapers in the state stopped publishing a paper seven days a week back in 2012.

Now there is an actual paper published on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. The news is now on the Internet.

Some of the digital news is free to read, but a lot of it requires a subscription.

I don't subscribe for an actual paper or for the digital version. I missed it at first, now I don't really care.

I read news from all over the USA and the world everyday. The local paper doesn't even interest me anymore.

I do read the obits...which doesn't require a subscription. I can check local news on the TV stations website.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

Skilled labor to run presses and make the plates is probably in dwindling supply. We have to save the earth and eliminate paper. Who would deliver papers now? And it's a different world.

No bottled milk delivery from the farm either.