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MT. VERNON – The three-days-a-week Mt. Vernon Register-News and the weekly McLeansboro Times-Leader announced today they are closing because they could not overcome local economic challenges. Twelve employees are affected.
The Register-News — which has published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday — printed its last edition today. It also shut down its website (www.register-news.com). The paper’s circulation was 3,100.
The Times-Leader, with a circulation of 1,800, will print its last edition Thursday. The paper also will shutter its website (www.mcleansborotimesleader.com) and its quarterly magazine, Hamilton County Now.
Please click to read the link from the Mt. Vernon Register-News website.
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