Our local paper just made its web page pay-only.

I can't really complain about that - they're in business to make a buck.

But you can still log in for free if you're a subscriber.

I have bought that paper every day that I was home for well over 40 years, but I'm not a subscriber; I get it from the local store next to the post office. So I would have to pay.

BUT I can get the world and national news from any number of web pages, mostly Google news. I can get the Vermont statewide news from the Burlington paper's, or the TV stations', web pages.

What I need our local paper for now, is the local area news (about 1 page of the paper), the local classifieds, particularly yard sale ads (more and more of which are on Craigslist as time goes on), and the obituaries, to make sure I'm not in there. For this I pay a dollar a day, day in and day out.

And they want me to pay more for web access.

They're going down. It's just a matter of time.

Peter