Wis. Newspaper Shuts Down Printing Presses After 92 Years

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Posted: 4:01 AM Sep 2, 2008 Wis. Newspaper Shuts Down Printing Presses After 92 Years A small weekly newspaper that ran for nearly a century in southern Wisconsin has shut down.

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ORFORDVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- It's another sign of the times.

A small weekly newspaper that ran for nearly a century in southern Wisconsin has shut down.

According to family lore, George Stewart slept in a cradle beside his mother Rose as she ran the linotype typesetting machine some 80 years ago. He says that as he got older, the playpen sat beside the machine.

The Stewart family chronicled the lives of area families for more than 92 years before publishing the last edition of the Orfordville Journal and Footville News on August 15th.

Attempts to sell the newspaper were unsuccessful.

But George says the family isn't ready to step away from the news for good.

He says he plans to publish a monthly Internet edition that eventually will be weekly. It's going to be at www.orfordville.com.

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