"Like many other local newsrooms, the News has lost advertising revenue at an unprecedented rate during the coronavirus pandemic. So the six-member staff kept its front page empty, a warning sign to the community about what might come if it ceased publication.
"That's the message we wanted to send: What happens if we're gone?" publisher and co-owner Michael Bushnell said. "If we print a blank front page with no news, people are going to see what it's like if we're gone."
