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31 Oct 2010 / #1
"Why We Are Closing Shop," read the headline in the Oct. 22 edition. Beneath that, Thomas Poster, the founder and permanent editor, laid it out clearly, as he had learned to do over seven decades in journalism. "It is simply an economic fiasco," he wrote. "So we have to close."
On Monday, Mr. Poster, 83, and his publisher, Helen R. Glinka - also his wife of 62 years - folded, stamped and mailed the newspapers from their Long Island home to the roughly 1,000 subscribers still hanging on. It was the last enactment of a weekly ritual that began with the inaugural issue, Feb. 6, 1959.
nytimes.com/2010/10/31/nyregion/31world.html?_r=1&ref=sam_dolnic - A Polish-American Paper's Final Edition
On Monday, Mr. Poster, 83, and his publisher, Helen R. Glinka - also his wife of 62 years - folded, stamped and mailed the newspapers from their Long Island home to the roughly 1,000 subscribers still hanging on. It was the last enactment of a weekly ritual that began with the inaugural issue, Feb. 6, 1959.
nytimes.com/2010/10/31/nyregion/31world.html?_r=1&ref=sam_dolnic - A Polish-American Paper's Final Edition