What One North Texas Community Lost When It Had To Say Goodbye To Its Newspaper

By Texas Standard

Published September 16, 2020 at 9:56 AM CDT

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Two empty newspaper boxes sit outside the former Mineral Wells Index building. The paper shut down in May 2020, and the publisher blamed financial pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic for the closure.

Miranda Suarez / KERA News

The Mineral Wells Index covered the small city for more than a century. In May, it shut down, joining dozens of other newspapers that have been driven out of business by the COVID-19 pandemic.