Twin Cities weekly newspapers are shutting down in the face of pandemic

Solid local reporting, regular coverage of business openings and ribbon cuttings, a trusted presence for decades in Washington County: None of it was enough to keep the Bulletin going when the pandemic hit.

A weekly newspaper covering Woodbury, Cottage Grove and the county's southern communities, the 33-year-old Bulletin was done in by an advertising slump inflamed by the coronavirus, its owners said. They shut it down last week.

https://www.startribune.com/weekly-papers-in-the-twin-cities-are-shutting-down-in-the-face-of-pandemic/570439682/