The Silverton Standard & The Miner (Silverton, CO), a small weekly with a circulation of 1,000, was about to die. That is, until the owner donated it to the local Historical Society.
This novel idea, if successful, could be the saving grace for many a small town paper, so reports The Denver Post. The Society is seeking $10,000 in grants to maintain the newspaper.
Welcome to The Kentucky Edition of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). We've been preserving Kentucky's newspapers on microfilm for more than 1/2 a century. We've been digitizing them as part of NDNP since 2005!