news such as the 4H Club, someone's vacation to see their sister somewhere, all kinds of neat trivia that makes reading a local paper so neat. I fear that the days of these small newspapers is going away, and they're all reverting to a standardized format online, where almost every single one of the remaining newspapers all look alike.

No reason to destroy the environment with an old relic thinking.

Or just few enough to be considered irrelevant?

going to take some time I would imagine.

and yes, I've seen changes.. on the online version, at least.

Granted, being behind a paywall I didn't go to it all that often. But I did go for the obits and local news and entertainment from time to time. Imagine my surprise when all the obits were only by name on the front page in a list format, with no info to be obtained by clicking on their names. Also, clicking on Entertainment brought no info (which, even for a small town, is a real rarity around here). Don't know much about games, I can't remember ever playing them. But I sure did notice the dearth of news and information! About the only thing the front page DID have was sports info.

This is a real bummer, I'm afraid. I used to pick up paper copy now and then from a kiosk. If this is the way it's gonna be, forget that.