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13/07/2026

LILLIE COX LEADS THE WAY as the Grand Marshall of last Saturday’s Fourth of July Parade in Versailles. Though not able to walk the full route, her dear friend Debbie Tichenor helped out. Judge-Executive James Kay, laughing, said, “It took a while for the parade to get to the courthouse because Lillie knows everyone and made Debbie push her back and forth so she could say ‘Hi’ to everyone!” (Photo by Scott White)

13/07/2026

THE WOODFORD SUN IS ENDORSING THE WCPS SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET FOR 2026-27, AND ASKS NO RECALL PETITION BE FILED

No recall petition on School Board budget, please

By Scott White
Community Liaison and Staff Reporter

If you have children in Woodford County Public Schools, or have been a regular reader of the Sun, or have attended or watched a WCPS Board Meeting (Board), or have been to one of WC Public Schools Superintendent Lori Jones’ Hive events, then you are well aware that our school system has been struggling with budget issues over the last few years.
The issue is simple – does the Board have sufficient revenues to provide our county’s students with a high-level public-school education? In our view, it does not.
And now that the Board is taking a responsible step with its proposed fiscal year 2026-27 budget, the last thing we need to do is hamstring it with a recall petition vote on the tax rate. Not only would that be chaotic, but it would also risk the steps the Board and Jones are undertaking to stabilize the district’s finances.
In fact, our editorial position is that a recall petition would be shortsighted, and arguably irresponsible, given the stakes.
The budget proposed by Jones, which the Board will soon vote on and, we hope, approve, calls for maintaining the current rate of 63.3%, or 63.3 cents per $100 of assessed property value. This rate, though, because of the complexities of state funding, makes it subject to a recall petition . . . even though the rate is the same as that used in FY 2025-26.
And not just that, but the current rate of 63.3 cents is an historical 14-year low property tax rate for Woodford County; the rate was over 70% just a few short years ago.
As our education reporter Bob Vlach wrote in his feature on WCPS Finance Director Jason Gribbins in last week’s Sun, this continuation rate will generate more than 4% in additional local revenue (money received from county property taxes) because of higher property values reassessed in one of four quadrants this past year. (Woodford County Property Valuation Administrator John Paul Coyle reassesses county property values on each quadrant every four years on a rotational basis.)
As Bob wrote, “(Gribbins) explained why adopting a 63.3-cent rate won’t necessarily generate more than 4 percent in additional revenue because of how the state’s per-student funding formula (SEEK) equalizes funding for public school districts in Kentucky. ‘Because of high local property values, the district receives less per-pupil funding from the state than most counties in Kentucky,’ Gribbins said. ‘And by next school year, we’ll be approaching 80 percent local funding.’”
SEEK is the state funding mechanism the Kentucky Legislature came up with in response to the seminal Kentucky Supreme Court decision in 1988 that held the funding of Kentucky public schools was unconstitutional by recognizing the reality that the quality of children’s education was entirely predicated on where they lived. For example, a student in a county with a strong economy, like Woodford or Fayette, was going to get a better education than a student living in Owsley or Muhlenberg counties.
Today, Woodford County is in the bottom 5% of counties in the state in per-pupil funding, according to the Kentucky Department of Education – and this is because we are one of the state’s wealthiest counties and our student population has stagnated at about 4,000.
As Gribbins explained to me in an email, “Given the current trajectory, local revenue will account for 80% of our school system’s per-pupil funding in the very near future.” This means that, ultimately, investing in our students as future community leaders, upholding our district’s high standards, and preserving our competitive excellence is a responsibility that belongs entirely to us, Woodford Countians.
The 1988 court decision led the legislature to enact the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990, which directly took on the state funding issue, as well as a number of other reforms designed to make Kentucky the envy of the nation.
While many of the reforms have fallen by the wayside due to either not being effective or a lack of political will to stick with them, the school funding piece, the part that led to the Supreme Court’s decision, has remained in place. Inherent in this reform was that wealthy counties would choose to fund their schools at appropriate levels given their higher tax bases. Again, it is up to us, Woodford Countians, to responsibly fund our public schools.
Last year, it was no secret that Woodford County schools had serious financial issues. Setting aside an autopsy to examine those reasons in this column, last year, the Board, in a surprise decision, chose not to raise the tax rate even though it was facing a $2.8 million shortfall.
At the August 2025 meeting, where the decision to forego a rate increase was made, a few property owners spoke against the increase, threatening to file a recall vote petition. It was no idle threat. Two of the speakers led the charge years ago when Woodford County voters beat back the so-called “nickel tax,” a rate increase the Board needed to generate funding to build a much-needed new high school. We saw what that did – it ultimately forced the board to take on significant debt and debt service by issuing bonds to build the school. And, for anyone who attended the old high school (including me), it was plain that this should have been done 20 years ago instead of waiting so long and loading up on debt instead of paying for it with revenues from the “nickle tax.”
At last August’s meeting, Board Chair Adam Brickler, who had earlier indicated he was leaning towards supporting the higher rate, made a wise decision and showed his bona fides as a leader.
Brickler received criticism for voting against the rate increase. Instead, with new Superintendent Jones in place, he said the Board should attempt to determine if it could operate the schools within a budget using the 63.3% rate, which would generate a modest increase, but below the amount that could trigger a recall petition. This then left the district with a $2.8 million operating deficit which the Board tried to solve with the old saw of eliminating “waste and inefficiencies.”
We have just completed that school year.
Jones, her Central Office leadership team, principals, teachers and staff deserve Purple Hearts for their courage and Oscars for their creativity in delivering an excellent school year for our students despite the nearly $3 million dollar deficit.
While some of the cuts and cutbacks were needed and created new efficiencies, which will boost outcomes, many of the cuts and cutbacks were deep and impacted classrooms; but if this year’s budget continues at the same 2025-26 funding level, we will see Woodford County Public Schools begin an inevitable decline.
To operate within last year’s budget, Jones created an ad hoc budget committee comprised of administrators, teachers, non-teaching staff, parents and community members to make recommendations that would have the least impact on students.
As a result, Jones cut $1.2 million from the Central Office budget and seven teaching positions while instituting an array of price controls.
Those cuts to Central Office and things like consolidation to realize efficiencies no longer exist. Chronic challenges remain, and newer ones have arisen, some worse, given external forces like inflationary prices, cost spikes in diesel fuel and insurance premiums, bond service, and any number of fixed and rising costs. “Tightening our belts” is no longer an available option; it was tightened last year, and now there is a risk of squeezing the school system to death.
Next week, the Sun will be giving space for a column by Superintendent Jones, who will address some of the ways the system will use tax revenues to continue to uphold WCPS’ reputation for excellence. Be on the lookout for it.
Our students deserve the proposed 2026-27 budget.
Given we are in the midst of a significant local election cycle, we will likely hear candidates, who do not directly impact the schools as do school board members, talk about how the county’s future is its children, why a big reason to live in Woodford County is because of its outstanding school system, and, if elected, how they will do all they can to partner with and support the public school system to maintain the level of excellence we have come to rely on.
Let’s hope they do.
Though we think the facts support a higher than 63.3% tax rate, we endorse Jones, Gribbins and the Board’s proposal and their collective belief that they can achieve the mission of excellence by continuing the 63.3% rate.
Jones and Gribbins will soon be holding forums all over the county to educate Woodford Countians on the need for this tax rate, what the schools are doing with the money, and why the revenues generated from that rate are vital.
Attend one of them. The dates will be published on the district’s website and in other ways.
Read Bob Vlach’s recent articles on the school board meetings, where these issues have been discussed in detail. Follow Bob’s upcoming stories about the forum discussions over the next few months. Go back and read Bob’s feature on Gribbins in the July 9 edition of the Sun, where Gribbins explained these issues in a way that even I could understand. If you missed it, we are posting it in full on our page this week. Also, take a read, if you haven’t yet, of Al Cross’ narrative Op-ed that ran last week about one of Kentucky’s poorest counties, Clinton, accepting a significant tax rate rather than any of its citizens filing a recall petition.
We think if folks are informed, they will agree that the 63.3% tax rate is fair and necessary.
Even though you may be tempted to file a recall petition and put the rate of 63.3 cents per $100 of assessed property value (or $63 on $100,000 in value) up for a countywide vote—we ask you, as a member of this community, not to do it and to ask your neighbors not to either.
Instead, let’s all support the Board’s responsible decision on the FY 2026-27 budget.
Please.

07/07/2026

WE ENCOURAGE ALL INTERESTED IN THE WC SCHOOL BUDGET TO READ THIS STORY FROM LAST WEEK'S PAPER. Scott White

New WCPS Finance Director Brings "Fresh Eyes" to Budget Issues
By Bob Vlach
Woodford Sun Staff

Before applying to be finance director of Woodford County Public Schools (WCPS), Jason Gribbins said he had broad knowledge of the financial realities facing the school district.
Gribbins embraced the challenges that came with navigating WCPS through what he described as “a rebuild year” because of experiences gained managing multi-million-dollar budgets as a 20-year-old Marine, he said. By the time he was wrapping up his 20-year career in the military, he was managing hundreds of people and hundreds of millions in infrastructure, he said.
After retiring from the military, Gribbins said he managed budgets “much larger” than this school system’s when he worked in higher education. In that role and others focused on financial stewardship in education settings, it is about “how do you make sure that every dollar is being used in a fiscally responsible (manner) to support the students,” said Gribbins, who lives in Lawrenceburg with his wife Chrissie and their two youngest children.
Coming to WCPS was an opportunity for him to bring “a fresh set of eyes” to a school district facing tough financial realities.
“I like to build things and make processes better. That’s just the way my brain’s wired,” he said. “... I try to understand ... trend lines. What’s happening? What’s going wrong? What’s going good?”
During an interview with the Sun lasting more than an hour, Gribbins talked about property taxes, cutting expenses and a variety of other topics related to school finances.
He noted that if the Woodford County Board of Education (BOE) adopts a property tax rate that holds the rate at 63.3 cents per $100 of assessed value, which will generate more than 4 percent in additional local revenue because of higher property values, it would be subject to a recall vote. He also explained why adopting a 63.3-cent rate won’t necessarily generate more than 4 percent in additional revenue for WCPS because of how the state’s per-student funding formula (SEEK) equalizes funding for public school districts in Kentucky.
Because of high local property values, the district receives less per-pupil funding from the state than most counties in Kentucky, Gribbins said. And by next school year, “we’ll be approaching 80 percent local funding,” he said.
The district’s student population has remained stagnant at about 4,000, which Gribbins said also reduces how much state funding WCPS receives.
Expenses, including property insurance (up 238 percent) and diesel fuel (up 61 percent), have increased significantly since the 2022-23 school year, according to data collected by WCPS.
So when Gribbins built a budget for next school year, he said he looked at historical data, property assessment values and the loss in state SEEK funding to determine what revenue is projected.
“I like to be what I call a shared risk person,” said Gribbins, who grew up in Marion County. “... I want to make sure that you know what I know. You see the numbers that I see, so we all make the decision based on the same information.”
WCPS was facing a $2.8 million operating deficit last school year when new Superintendent Lori Jones was hired. Early on, Jones focused on recommending cuts (with input from a budget committee of administrators, teachers, non-teaching staff, parents and community members) in areas that had the least impact on students. So the “overwhelming majority” of the positions eliminated to reduce expenses were part of a reorganization of Central Office that reduced spending by about $1.2 million, said Gribbins, 50.
“The day-to-day operations or the required tasks (of running a school district) don’t go away just because you have less people. You still have to do what’s necessary to operate and support the district. And so, if there’s less people, it just means there’s more people doing more things and (wearing) multiple hats…,” he explained.
His finance department has three employees instead of eight or nine (not including payroll), “but we can do what we need to do with us three,” Gribbins said.
He described the reorganization as maximizing every single dollar by being more efficient, while continuing to support what happens in the classroom. The students need to be at the center of every decision, he said.
“It’s just using and being smart with our financial resources because we want to make sure that the financial resources we have really go toward supporting students and their success,” said Gribbins.
He said the education programs in Woodford County schools need to prepare students to pursue whatever career path they choose in college, trade school or military.
“Finding out what you don’t want to do is just as good as finding out what you do want to do because it helps steer your paths,” he said.
It wasn’t until after Gribbins joined the Marines that he, at age 27, started his journey in higher education, he said. Now, he has a master’s degree in business administration, another in the arts, and a doctorate in education, “because I fell in love with education, personally and professionally,” he said.
The Central Office reorganization saved about $1.2 million in personnel costs, but seven teaching positions were still cut at the high school because of what Gribbons described as “the financial realities that we faced.”
The high school’s business career pathway was also cut.
“We would love to offer a lot more programs (for our students),” he said. “... But right now, the revenue doesn’t support being able to do those things.”
Later adding, “The overarching umbrella (in fiscal policy) is about stewardship. It’s about how do you make sure that you’re using the tax dollars of our community wisely. We’re not wasteful ... and that’ll continue as long as I’m in this role...” He also noted that more cost (spending) controls have been put in place, and credit card spending is very minimal.
Gribbins said if the BOE votes to hold the property tax rate at 63.3 cents per $100 of assessed value, WCPS will be able to build its contingency for unforeseen emergencies like school facility needs or to give teachers and other employees a pay raise in budgets going forward.
“We’re already on such a better path than just six months ago,” said Gribbins. “... And so, after this kind of fiscal year, I think we’ll be in a really good spot.”
Gribbins will join Jones on “Road Shows” this summer, with the hope of educating and providing information to Woodford County residents that WCPS does not want to raise their property tax rate, “we just want to keep (the rates) where they’re at ... because that helps us sustain” services and supports to prepare students for the future as operating costs continue to rise, he said. If the district doesn’t maintain the current tax rate, he continued, “It’s ... like under-funding our classrooms about 2 percent every year. And that’s just the reality.”

06/07/2026

VERSAILLES FIREFIGHTERS responded to deadly floods in Richmond and Madison County on Saturday. Pictured, from left, are Versailles Firefighter Kyle Pearson and Sgt. Landon Mefford of the Frankfort Fire Department, with Chief T.A. Rankin, Lt. Bryan Arnett, Battalion Chief Jim Adkins, Firefighter James Taylor and Battalion Chief Max Davis of the Versailles Fire Department near the end of their deployment. They are wearing swift-water dry suits to keep contaminants in flood waters off their bodies, according to Davis. (VFD photo)

04/07/2026

WHITNEY STEPP speaks about the “Huntertown Horsemen” at the Huntertown Community Interpretive Park’s annual Juneteenth event at Holly Hill Inn on Wednesday, June 17. (Photo courtesy of Friends of HCIP)

03/07/2026

THE KENTUCKY LANTERN

In a historic shift, struggling Kentucky newspaper gets tax approval to become a nonprofit
By Jack Brammer
July 2, 2026

Bob Rouse, 68, of Midway, is a loyal reader of The Woodford Sun. The Versailles-based newspaper means a lot to him: With it, he has been able to keep up with hometown events like school board and other governmental actions, community activities, scores from games of the high school’s Yellowjackets, church milestones and obituaries.

“I guess I have been reading it all my life. It’s about my community. It’s about people I know,” said Rouse, a writer who recently retired as vice president of marketing for National Tour Association in Lexington that connects global travel professionals.

But Rouse, a strong supporter of community journalism, is worried because he knows firsthand of the financial struggles newspapers across the country have experienced as traditional advertising and print circulation revenues have fallen. He was a marketing writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader until the newspaper eliminated his job in a series of cost-cutting moves.

Now, Rouse serves on an advisory board that wants to make The Woodford Sun stronger and more viable.

The Central Kentucky newspaper with about 2,700 subscriptions plans to roll out in September its status as the first legacy newspaper in Kentucky to become a nonprofit. A legacy newspaper is one that began publishing before the internet era.

The primary reason for the change: money. More specifically, the lack of money.

More and more newspapers, especially in big cities, are transitioning to a nonprofit model to try to survive declines in traditional advertising and subscription revenue.

The new tax structure allows them to implement new funding streams such as tax-deductible donations, foundation grants and memberships, while protecting editorial independence.

Memberships are offered to paid subscribers who want to donate more to the paper. Reporter and community liaison Scott White said there will be a minimal fee to become a member. The board still is working on that amount, he said.

“It has taken a great deal of work to get to all of this,” he said.

A long journey

The Woodford Weekly started in 1869 and became The Woodford Sun weekly in 1872. It has been operated by the Chandler family of Woodford County since Gov. Albert B. “Happy” Chandler bought it in 1942. Running it since 2022 is Ben Chandler, former state attorney general and member of Congress from Kentucky’s 6th District from 2004 to 2013.

Chandler became publisher after his brother, Whit, died unexpectedly in January 2022 at the age of 57. Whit replaced his father, Albert Benjamin “Ben” Chandler Jr., who was the paper’s publisher from 1959 to his death in 2016 at age 87.

Assisting Ben Chandler with operations of the paper today are his daughter, Lucie Chandler, who is the editor, and longtime friend, Scott White, a former attorney. The newspaper also has two other full-time staffers – business manager Bill Nave and reporter Bob Vlach. It has four part-time staffers – Brenda Stone in circulation, Tamara McSorley in layout and ad design, Melissa Patrick as copy editor/contributing writer and sportswriter Bill Caine.

For the last eight years, the newspaper has been running with “an operational deficit,” said White. “For the last three years, we have been able to cut that with stronger ad sales but it is still operating in the deficit.”

The newspaper, which runs about 12 to 14 pages a week, has had no layoffs but two employees recently have retired and another one left. The paper filled two of the vacancies. “Everybody at the paper is doing their job and more,” said White.

Chandler said he personally has given the newspaper $60,000 to keep it going. He has drawn no salary.

“I do this as a labor of love,” he said. “Going nonprofit will keep us going with an improved product. It will keep the paper alive.”

Chandler has been thinking about the nonprofit model since he took over four years ago. He started researching and talking to people in the community about the idea. He formed an eight-member advisory board on the subject in February 2026. It still exists with Chandler as board chairman.

Earlier this year, the IRS granted Chandler’s nonprofit status for the publication. His for-profit paper became the nonprofit Woodford Sun Community Newspaper.

“We’re in a period of transition now,” Chandler said. “We have donated the paper to the community, and will try to improve it and keep it alive with the community’s help.”

As a nonprofit, he said, any net revenue as a nonprofit will be reinvested into news coverage. The typical subscriber will see no increase in cost as the paper tries to produce a better product. The yearly subscription cost is $50 for Woodford County residents, $60 for other Kentucky residents, $65 for out-of-state residents and $38 for Woodford County residents 65 and older.

The paywall on the website with ads will remain, White said. “Maybe later down the line, we can drop that,” he said. (The Salt Lake Tribune in Utah, which went nonprofit in October 2019, officially removed its paywall this year and made all of its new content available for free, no subscription needed.)

Under the nonprofit status, donations to The Woodford Sun will be tax-deductible. White said the paper is making efforts to businesses in the area to support the paper. “We’ve had a positive response to our initial fund-raising effort,” he said, declining to offer amounts.

Lucie Chandler said the paper also will be in a better position to obtain grants.

Another advantage, said publisher Chandler, is that the new tax status will prevent predatory takeovers from private firms. “We’ve never had any interest in selling the paper,” he said. “And from what I’ve seen of some newspaper takeovers, I wouldn’t want to do that to this community.”

The Woodford Sun never entertained any thoughts of seeking government funding, said White. “We would be diametrically opposed to that.”

In one way or another, newspapers have always been subsidized by the government from postal subsidies in the country’s early history to public notices.

In 2022, the Nieman Lab, an online publication and research project at Harvard University dedicated to helping journalism figure out its future, reported on a proposal for indirect support from state governments such as tax credits for local news subscriptions or payroll taxes.

The idea has not caught on. No state currently provides a tax credit directly to consumers for purchasing local news subscriptions.

Another revenue-enhancing scheme being considered for newspapers involving the government calls for a federal trust fund.

Proposed earlier this year by the Democratic Policy Network in Washington, an interstate network that organizes policy support for state leaders, the U.S. Treasury Department would house $10 billion annually to distribute to local newspapers. Local citizen panels would be chosen – randomly like jury polls – to oversee the money.

That would be enough to fund 50,000 new local reporting jobs across the country, the network said.

The U.S. Congress has not given much consideration to the proposal.

According to the Washington-based Pew Research Center, only 10 percent of U.S. adults believe direct government funding should be a major revenue stream for news organizations.

“We did not want to go any route depending on the government,” said White. “We wanted to avoid the appearance of giving the government any hint of editorial influence.”

Is White concerned about influence from large donors to The Woodford Sun?

“People are always trying to influence what’s in the paper,” he said. “We will keep our editorial independence. We, who manage the paper, will see to that. Our board will see to that.”

As a nonprofit, the paper cannot be sold like a traditional business. If it dissolves, its remaining assets must go to another nonprofit.

A disadvantage of going nonprofit is losing the right to endorse specific political candidates or political parties.

“We have not endorsed in years,” said publisher Chandler.

Are nonprofits the future?

“I think the answer is yes,” said Al Cross, professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Kentucky. “The old business model is barely holding up.

“I also think going nonprofit, with community buy-in through donations, premium subscriptions and dialogue about content, can insulate local news outlets from suspicion that they have an agenda other than seeking the truth and reporting it.

“The big news outlets have largely lost that battle with most Americans, but I think there is still a reservoir of good will toward local journalists, especially those who are known to the audience.”

Cross also said he favors revenue-producing measures like tax credits for subscriptions and a federal trust fund for local journalism. But he acknowledged those moves would not be acceptable in some communities.

The Kentucky journalist also voiced support for a state law “requiring a certain percentage of state and local government advertising (not public notice ads) to go to bona fide news organizations with proven circulation.”

He said New York City has such a law and it has helped many neighborhood publications. Maryland is the only state with a statewide law requiring a specific percentage of government advertising to go to local news outlet, reports Rebuild Local News. It is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advances public policies to counter the collapse of local news.

“Of course, we need to preserve or even expand public-notice advertising, which has become an essential revenue source for local newspapers, much as it was in the first half-century of the republic,” Cross added.

The Salt Lake Tribune in October 2019 was the first legacy newspaper in the United States to become a nonprofit. With the elimination of the website paywall, all of its news content is free.

NPR reported that the paper last year had a digital subscription revenue of about $2.6 million from 32,000 digital subscribers. It expects up to 75 percent of digital subscribers will continue as paying donors. It also received a $1 million pledge from a board member.

Other notable newspapers have gone the nonprofit route, including the Chicago Sun-Times in 2022, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in May and the Maine Trust for Local News, which owns five of Maine’s six daily newspapers. The Minnesota Star Tribune is actively pursuing a transition to a nonprofit, foundation-owned model. The St. Petersburg Times that was renamed the Tampa Bay Times in 2012 is owned by the Poynter Institute – a nonprofit journalism school.

Though the Woodford Sun will become the first legacy newspaper in Kentucky to become a nonprofit, Kentucky has several nonprofit news organizations. They range from statewide digital startups to regional reporting centers.

They include the Kentucky Lantern in Frankfort, Northern Kentucky Tribune in Edgewood, Louisville Public Media, Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting housed under Louisville Public Media, Kentucky Educational Television in Lexington and the Hoptown Chronicle in Hopkinsville.

While the non-profit model has rescued many legacy and independent publications, non-profit status is not a guarantee of success. High-profile examples of non-profit news closures include major digital upstarts like The Houston Landing and smaller local publications like the Pike Peaks Bulletin, according to Inside the News in Colorado, a weekly newsletter about the news industry.

Newspapers nationally are declining, said Tim Timmons, executive director of the Kentucky Press Association.

“We have lost more than 3,000 papers in this country in the last couple of decades,” he said. The United States today has about 938 printed daily newspapers and about 5,595 local news newspapers overall.

Kentucky has not lost as many as other states, Timmons said.

The two largest newspapers in the state – the Courier Journal in Louisville and Lexington Herald-Leader – have decreased publication dates. About a dozen or so papers have gone out of business in the last 10 years but none in the last couple of years, Timmons said. The state has about 140 newspapers, the majority being weeklies and about a dozen dailies.

As far as the future of newspapers, Timmons thinks “some papers will certainly go the route of non-profits. Others will stay in the for-profit model.”

A problem in the industry, he said, “is that there are all sorts of models that can and do work well. It’s like restaurants. There are many different types of restaurants, just like there are different types of newspapers.

“Trying to find a one-size-fits-all solution is incredibly dangerous. Our newspapers fare best when they are deeply entrenched in their communities and are great local partners — like so many good ones are.”

Woodford County Sun subscriber Rouse hopes that is the case for his hometown newspaper. He is aware that the decline of local news exacerbates division in the community with partisan social media, often not true, filling much of the void.

“I think the newspaper going nonprofit will not only be good for it, it will be good for the entire county with more coverage of what’s really going on,” said Rouse.

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