The Colorado Sun: Nearly five months ago, Kent Brooks figured the days of the 138-year-old Plainsman Herald, the weekly newspaper serving the Springfield area in far southeast Baca County, were drawing to a close.
In a July 16 note to readers, he announced that the paper would cease print publication at the end of the year, owing to declining advertising that tipped the financial scales into unsustainable territory. He left the door open, just a crack, to reconsider if something changed, though that didn’t seem likely.
And yet, something did change.
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