This is a Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 file photo of a laboratory mouse as it looks over the gloved hand of a technician at the Jackson Laboratory, in Bar Harbor, Maine.
This is a Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006 file photo of a laboratory mouse as it looks over the gloved hand of a technician at the Jackson Laboratory, in Bar Harbor, Maine.
On Friday night, Village Net Media of Rockland announced it was ceasing operations, closing down newspapers in Rockland, Bar Harbor, Belfast and Augusta, and putting 56 people out of work.
No online miracles: The Village Soup idea began back in the late 1990s as a hyper-local news Web site in Knox County.
The owner of Village NetMedia, Richard Anderson, announced Friday, March 9, 2012 that he has closed all his newspapers effective immediately.
