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As you note, under 2K people. Lots of people crying for the paper to come back may be a big number by percentage, but totals? Not so much.

Like a lot of the High Plains, it's hollowed out. Wiki says county has lost population every decade but one since the 1950s. No businesses. That means no ads.

Sidebar: Small High Plains counties that are losing population at a slower rate, or even treading water? In West Tex-ass, at least, that's because of demographic changes, and I am sure Alden is not investing in a Spanish-language newspaper, whether single-county or multi-county. Ditto for other corporates.

Guy here in Texas made his paper in the suburban Metroplex a nonprofit corp last year, then decided he needed to rescue one West Texas paper and had big ideas about others. Likely won't happen.

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