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The Santa Clarita Gazette & Free Classifieds is ceasing publication after their July 3 issue, with a tentative return date in September.
In a note from publishers Doug and Jeannie Sutton on Thursday, the Gazette announced that the weekly publication would be halted after July 3, with a tentative hope to return to print in September 2020.
“This newspaper has been struggling with adequate advertising revenue even before the Coronavirus shuttered most businesses,” read the Stuttons’ statement. “The recovery has been slow and makes continuing to operate in our current form no longer feasible.”
As one of the founders, Doug Sutton has been involved with the Gazette since its inception, which published its first issue on July 31, 1998, according to the Gazette.
“We appreciate the many people who responded and financially helped us print every week since mid-April, it was a heartwarming blessing and makes the end even more bittersweet,” the Suttons said in their announcement. “Publishing this newspaper has truly been a labor of love, but retirement calls.”
The Suttons hope to use the hiatus as an opportunity to retire to Indiana to live near their eldest son and his family, in order to enjoy more time with him, his wife, and their three oldest grandchildren.
More information on the history of the Gazette is expected to be available in the next issue of the publication.
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Good! I never liked this paper! Nobody ever actually sells anything through it’s classifieds anyway! I’ve always despised Doug and his total-extreme, completely nuts right wing rants! Hope it never comes back! Good riddance! I did often grab a short stack every once in awhile for the bottom of my bird cage, though. I’ll kinda miss it for that, but otherwise, later!!!
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Nobody ever forced a person to pick up a FREE Publication, or look up a web site so one could get irritated, well, maybe you,
I’m sure many folks worked, enjoyed, and contributed to the long time publication over the past 20+ years,
Just for entertainment of course, it’s called a job.
However, since YOU have an ENJOYABLE opinion about the publication being halted and folks losing their jobs, I have an opinion about you, but I’ll save it for another time,
Good luck Doug Sutton with retirement, if it calls?
Agreed it will be missed its good to hear other opinions out there and he had some great points. Its like we are living the Salem witch trials all over if you don’t agree with or have other opinions the left points at you screaming” witch” just for having your own opinion and thoughts.
SCV, you judging/labeling others for doing what you do is rich. Pot meet kettle.
Oh, wow! Now you’re making me feel bad! LOL! NOT! Good riddance to the crap Gazette and everyone there! Maybe now they can move to the Carolinas or something and spew their ignorant, ridiculous rants there!
SCV GAZETTE
You will be missed! I truly enjoyed Doug’s Rant and will miss the paper! You gave me loads of laughs! Good luck and God’s Blessings on your retirement. You deserve it!
Thank you for the many years of the gazette.
Good riddance. Doug’s “rants” were usually filled with half-truths, no-truths, and outright fabrication of “truth” as he saw it.