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It’s perhaps too easy for outsiders and the technoriché to mock the death of the newspaper industry. I mean, standing with your foot raised triumphantly on the the boated, crow-pecked corpse of an sick animal doesn’t exactly ring of triumphant victory.

Even in our own little town, the two local papers, locked in a life or death battle for survival, are facing tough times. We’ve said this before, but know this: Oconomowoc will _not_ have two local paper’s at years end. Not in their current forms, anyway.

And that would be a shame, not only because we are very fond of at least one of the local papers, but because Oconomowoc could be deprived of classic WTF moments like this one:

Pictured at the top: Oconomowoc Enterprise from March 19: Headline: School Board agrees to ban alcohol from high school arts center. Below: Oconomowoc Focus  Board tables issue on alcohol at the new OAC.

So which one is it?

I made a phone call, and the Oconomowoc Focus has it correct. This should not surprise anyone.

Disclosure: I worked for the Focus and it’s publisher Lake Country Publications from 1999 to 2007.

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