Mount Ayr [Iowa] Record-News and Cook [Minnesota] News-Herald, both small-town weeklies still plugging along with local staff and apparently still quite vital. The publisher/editor in Cook delivers small stacks to retail outlets himself but subscribers, both local and distant (like me) get them in the mail; Record-News subscribers also dependent on the USPS. We have homes on Lake Vermilion in MN and also near Redding, IA and the publications are read cover-to-cover with great interest. Record-News recently survived its second ownership change since we started subscribing three decades ago and the News-Herald guy is the Northwoods equivalent of Art Cullen but at the other end of the political spectrum--not sure what will happen when he is gone but hope there is an interest from someone.
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Mount Ayr [Iowa] Record-News and Cook [Minnesota] News-Herald, both small-town weeklies still plugging along with local staff and apparently still quite vital. The publisher/editor in Cook delivers small stacks to retail outlets himself but subscribers, both local and distant (like me) get them in the mail; Record-News subscribers also dependent on the USPS. We have homes on Lake Vermilion in MN and also near Redding, IA and the publications are read cover-to-cover with great interest. Record-News recently survived its second ownership change since we started subscribing three decades ago and the News-Herald guy is the Northwoods equivalent of Art Cullen but at the other end of the political spectrum--not sure what will happen when he is gone but hope there is an interest from someone.
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