Flagler News announces its closure, just months after its owner saved another rural Colorado newspaper

The Colorado Sun: The irony wasn’t lost on Tom Bredehoft.

Just a few months after the publisher of The Flagler News swooped in to save The Burlington Record from closing, he learned that he’d be losing two of the Flagler paper’s biggest advertisers — a development that instantly sounded the death knell for the paper he grew up with, eventually purchased and then nurtured for 30 years.

Under a colorful banner wishing readers a Happy New Year, Bredehoft ran the story announcing that The Flagler News would cease publication with Thursday’s edition, the last printing of the weekly launched in 1913 by E.H. Knowlton.

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