Our venerable newspaper, The Hattiesburg American, stopped printing the paper at their building last year. Gannett news service which owns the American, stopped printing the paper locally to cut costs, and now have their presses in Jackson do it, then the American is trucked down to Hattiesburg.
I thought that was bad enough, but Wednesday the paper stopped printing obituaries. They will only print one line giving the deceased person's name and date of death--if you want a regular longer obit printed, you have to pay for it.
Now you will have to go online and look up info if you want to find out anything.
Hey, one of the first things everyone looks for in the paper is the obits--when you get to a certain age you want to see whom you've outlived.

Boy that's gonna ruffle some feathers. The main body of suscribers and readers of the paper are older folks, and not having the obits printed and having to look it up online ain't gonna fly. Lots of older people down here don't use a computer.

I suggest to the paper that they charge for engagement and wedding announcements with photos that take up a lot of room, and leave the obits like we're used to. If they're trying to save ink and paper by not printing full obits, they'll go out of business. The paper is already embarrassingly paltry as it is. If the carrier throws it in a ditch or the weeds, it gets lost it's so thin.

Anyway, I hate change, and we'll be lost if the newspaper folds (small pun there.)

susil