EAGLE RIVER – Wisconsin-Michigan Publishers closed its doors this week, the Vilas County News-Review reported.
Forty-seven years ago, six local newspapers — the News-Review, the Tomahawk Leader, the Lakeland Times, the Tri-County Independent, the Iron County (Mich.) Reporter and the L’Anse (Mich.) Sentinel — established the plant with the help of state bonding.
Three of the six charter newspapers have left the plant in the past decade, though, and numerous financial issues forced the plant to close, the News-Review reported.
The printing of this week’s edition of the News-Review marks the end of a string of nearly 135 years that a newspaper has been printed in Eagle River. The city’s first newspaper, the Vindicator, printed there in the 1880s.
The News-Review and The Three Lakes News will now be printed by Adams Publishing Group in Janesville.
