After 146 years, a Northern California county loses its only newspaper

One of California’s oldest small-town newspapers has gone silent. The Del Norte Triplicate — tracing back to a paper founded in 1879 in Crescent City , a fogbound fishing town just south of the Oregon border — has permanently closed after nearly 150 years of chronicling life in the state’s northernmost county.

Editor Roger Gitlin announced the shutdown on Facebook , saying there wasn’t enough revenue to keep publishing. He called the closure “a very sad day” and likened Del Norte County losing its newspaper to no longer having a soul.

The shutdown leaves Crescent City and Del Norte County — a remote corner of the North Coast, about350 miles north of San Francisco — without a newspaper of record for the first time since the 19th century, a stark reminder of how fragile local journal