Happy New Year!
This is the 95th year of publication for The New Era, and given what’s happened to nearly 10 other local newspapers in Oregon in the last six months, I feel privileged to write this editorial in this medium as we swing into 2025.
The Brownsville Times was the latest, and it was forced to close entirely. It printed its last edition on Dec. 5, then literally died with hardly a peep.
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