When I was a kid growing up in Verona, N.J., we awoke to two local newspapers on our doorstep: the Star-Ledger and the Verona-Cedar Grove Times. By the end of the day, a third arrived, the Newark Evening News.
The news was local, personal, and community-building.
There was deep, consequential coverage of local school boards, city council, high school sports, and local business. Local news was a part of a virtuous cycle. Each newspaper reflected its community and, in turn, helped to build it.
Today, each of those papers, as I knew them, is gone. The Evening News was shuttered in 1972. The Star-Ledger stopped printing last year, but lives online as part of Advance Publications’ NJ.com. And the Times mainly operates under the banner of Gannett-owned NorthJersey.com.
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