RIP

“Losing a newspaper is like losing the heartbeat of a town.” 

—Keith Pritchard, chairman of the board, Security Bank of Pulaski County in Waynesville, Missouri, whose local newspaper, The Daily Guide, died last summer, in “Decline in readers, ads leads hundreds of newspapers to fold,” Associated Press, March 11, 2019.

• Editorial Comment: Town crier wanted.

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