After 165 years in business, this Maryland newspaper printed its last edition on Thursday

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The Washington Post / Paul Farhi / Jan 31

“The story has become humdrum, so routine that newspapers barely stir themselves to report on all the deaths in their family. The civic commemorations are brief, too, if they happen at all. The numbers are dry: More than 1 in 5 newspapers, mostly weeklies like the Sentinels, have dropped dead over the past 15 years.”

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