The Colorado Sun: A weekly alternative newspaper in Colorado Springs is suspending publication and “going dark” amid overwhelming debt, with the hope that it may return in February.

The final issue of the Colorado Springs Independent, known to readers as “The Indy,” will be published Dec. 27, putting an indefinite pause to the weekly that served the state’s second-largest city as an alternative to the city’s daily newspaper for more than three decades. 

“That’s our hope, because that’s all it can be is a hope right now,” Fran Zankowski, the paper’s publisher, told The Colorado Sun on Tuesday. “What happened is, we do not have enough money to pay the staff in January.” 

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