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By: Robert Washburn | April 24, 2018

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This Ontario town lost its local newspaper. But the stories haven't stopped
After 136 years, the weekly paper in Tilbury, Ont., closed its doors in 2020 Humphrey Rogers, 87, has lived in Tilbury, Ont., since 1946 and seen a lot of changes. The biggest was the closure of the paper, the Tilbury Times, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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