The Standard will remain in business but employees will work from home, office location will close at year’s end

For the first time since the first newspaper was established in Waukon (Iowa) nearly 170 years ago, there will not be an actual physical newspaper office location for the community publication as of Jan. 1, 2026. As of that New Year date, employees of The Standard newspaper will be transitioned to working remotely from home and the long-standing newspaper office location at 15 First Street NW in Waukon will no longer be open for newspaper business operations.

The newspaper itself will remain in business, and readers will continue to receive their weekly editions of The Standard or Northeast Iowa Extra as if nothing has changed. The only major difference is the building that has housed the local newspaper since 1948 (see building cornerstone in photo above), when Louis and Leslie Hull first bought The Waukon Democrat and The Republican-Standard newspapers and opened their new office there, will no longer be the newspaper’s business location.

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