Through a photo with a Gazette article about two Vinton-Shellsburg seniors who are Certified Nursing Assistants currently in New Jersey, I found out something completely unrelated: No one’s writing for the Traer Star-Clipper right now.
Two years and two months ago, the TSC building in Traer was abandoned and all newspaper functions were relocated to Tama. At that time, C.J. Eilers (who graduated from ISU in 2014) was named “editor” for both the TSC and the Dysart Reporter.
It turns out he has moved east, where he is now county editor for Vinton Newspapers. His introduction column there is from Feb. 9, and the last Traer-specific news articles on the TSC website are dated Feb. 10. Since then, the TSC has been running press releases and countywide news — but that might be hard to notice with the significant lack of events to cover the past two months.