This bites. Best weekly newspaper in the state folds after 3 years
From the Rapid City Weekly News, we’re finding out tonight that the best weekly paper in the state (and better than several dailies for political reporting) is no more:
After three and a half years and 182 editions, The Rapid City Weekly News is shutting its doors. The final edition is being distributed this week.
The Weekly News was launched on Oct. 20, 2005, in an effort to provide more local news to the Rapid City community. That goal was accomplished, as readers scooped up the free weekly newspaper, which printed 23,000 copies each week.
It broke local stories, produced features, photographs and cartoons that delighted readers and provided a choice the community embraced.
But the economic downturn in recent months spelled the end for The Weekly News and the final story, the last chapter, has been written.
Read it all here one final time.
I, and I’m sure other SDWC readers, will mourn it’s passing.
I hope they can take solace in the fact that they burned like a white hot flame, very brightly, and all too briefly.
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Too bad! They tried to keep the Rapid City Journal reporting the news in an honest way. Competition is always a good thing.