Watch: Why did the Hudson Gazette shut down?
HUDSON — A weekly newspaper that’s been in print since 1919, back when Sir Robert Borden was Canada’s sitting Prime Minister, is no longer being published.
The last hard copy was issued on October 1.
People living in this close community of more than 5,000 are at a loss to understand why.
Watch: Where’s The Hudson Gazette gone?
Global News reached Jim Duff, the paper’s Editor-in-Chief, on the phone, but he had no comment on why the paper has abruptly stopped.
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“Who knows what the future holds,” he answered when asked whether the Hudson Gazette will eventually return.
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“I’m shocked. But I’m more sorry than anything else. I hope they turn it around. I hope it does well,” Beryl Wajsman, Editor-in-Chief of The Suburban said.
Wajsman knows Duff well and said he also doesn’t have an explanation for the paper’s sudden demise.
Many Hudson residents are very upset; many grew up with the weekly for decades and consider it part of the democratic fabric that makes up the small town.
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