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Ridgewood NJ, in what can only be seen as a death knell for the newspaper industry “journalists” at the Bergen Record , the Daily Record and New Jersey Herald all owned by Gannett voted overwhelmingly to unionize.
The parent company of the Asbury Park Press and five other New Jersey newspapers has acquired The Record (Bergen County) and other assets of the North Jersey Media Group. Gannett, The Record Read more
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.
