{"id":10882,"date":"2019-04-24T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10882"},"modified":"2019-05-31T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T03:30:44","slug":"3-12-counties-2-newspaper-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/3-12-counties-2-newspaper-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"3 1\/2 counties, 2 newspaper offices"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been more than a year since the Traer Star-Clipper<\/em> office closed.<\/a><\/p>\n

When the owner of the paper relocated everyone working on a Tama-Grundy Publishing weekly to Tama, seven publications total, everything<\/em> was left behind. Look in the front window and, aside from the clock that stopped sometime in the fall, it appears someone should walk through the door at any minute.<\/p>\n

The racked weeklies from early 2018, now yellowing, still there.<\/p>\n

A handful of Centennial Editions from 1973, potentially unmoved since that year, still there.<\/p>\n

Most worrisome, the bound volumes, potentially the only physical copies of decades’ worth of both the Star-Clipper<\/em> and Dysart Reporter<\/em>, might or might not still be there. Despite multiple offers to find them a new home, their whereabouts are unconfirmed. There are plans to digitize the papers through around World War II, but I really hope we can get them all. There are two file cabinets of card catalogs painstakingly listing references to every person, place, and event, lines typewritten in one at a time over decades. The fate of this invaluable resource of Tama County history, too, is in question.<\/p>\n

The owners didn’t even take the shingle down to give to the museum.<\/p>\n

The Star-Clipper <\/em>editor’s\u00a0<\/em>time is divided with one other paper. That’s better than some weeklies to the south.<\/p>\n

As of earlier this year, four newspapers \u2014 which used to be more \u2014 in Iowa, Poweshiek, and southern Benton counties are all in the hands of one “community content specialist”<\/a> from her home in Homestead. The papers are technically subsidiaries of Gannett, bought by The Des Moines Register<\/em> in 2000. Editors of other publications in the group took a different job<\/a> and early retirement<\/a>\u00a0since last summer.<\/p>\n

But they are, at least, still being published.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 5\/31: The Star-Clipper<\/em> shingle has been taken down. Everything else remains inside, untouched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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