Midland Park-based weekly newspaper shutters after a quarter century
MARCH 18, 2015 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2015, 10:26 AM
BY LYNN BRUGGEMANN
CORRESPONDENT |
MIDLAND PARK SUBURBAN NEWS
MIDLAND PARK – The Villadom Times, a family-owned weekly newspaper serving a dozen communities in Northwest Bergen County, shut down its presses with its March 18 edition.
“It was just time for me to retire,” said Ester Vierheilig, who has operated the newspaper with her husband, Albert, for more than 25 years. “I appreciate the loyalty of my readers and the business community for all these years.”
According to the newspaper’s home page on the Internet, the free publication had a circulation of 47,461 in northwest Bergen County.
The newspaper launched in 1987.
Here’s my comment: why does it say there are 3 comments when there are none?
Very nasty way that they went out of business like that. I know two employees, both of whom got phone calls and were told we’re done, your’re done, have a nice life.
“The publisher appears to have been involved in only one minor political dust-up, when Democratic Bergen County Executive candidate Dennis McNerney in 2002 called for an investigation of his Republican opponent’s periodic column in the Villadom. McNerney contended that then state Sen. Henry P. McNamara should have disclosed the column, called Straight Talk, as an in-kind contribution from the Vierheiligs.”
So Boyd Loving was right on the money when he commented that Paul Aronsohn’s monthly column in The Ridgewood News may be a violation of NJ State Election Commission Laws and also unethical.
I love it. who cares ,
12:02 – hmmmmmm, sounds like the Ridgewood News might have the same sort of dust-up if they keep on with the mayor’s monthly PR column.
12:02 yes, no question, Aronsohn must suspend his columns well before the election to avoid running afoul of NJ election laws. Thank you for pointing this out.
Running foul of election laws is the name of the game, as in the Mike Sedon anonymous email.