Last Friday, July 16, 2021, we published the first edition of the Rainy Lake Gazette, a brand-new newspaper serving International Falls and Koochiching County. The paper was distributed exactly two weeks after the previous local newspaper, the International Falls Journal, published its last edition.
We hope that what seemed so bleak two weeks ago has been replaced with a new sense of optimism. This is the story of how so many people, both from within and outside the community in I Falls, came together to launch a newspaper from the ground up in a three week’s time.
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