The newspapers were brutal. They were really criticizing us.

It struggled because there was no formal financing for it. I had to beg and borrow and everything.

We lost all our landmarks. All our icons.

It began because, at that time, in the early '70s, we had a lot of negative occurrences in Cherry Hill.

You are seeing ads in the newspapers for (mine) orientation classes. They used to teach mining in the high schools 20 years ago, but they stopped. Well, they're teaching mining again now.

Our employees have done an outstanding job of producing good, quality community newspapers in St. Clair County for many years. However, the Journals have not been able to secure enough St. Clair market share of advertising revenue.