ended operations in this building in September, 1967<\/a>.\u00a0 Its final edition was published on the last day of 2015.\u00a0 You may note that the Monessen Chamber of Commerce offices were (at some point) next door to the newspaper, for what that was worth.<\/p>\nI love the design of the font.\u00a0 I love the earnestness of the globe-and-compass insignia.\u00a0 I adore how the facade of the newspaper office was tucked underneath the adjoining apartments. \u00a0 And I lament the loss of community newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These were the Sixth Street (Monessen) offices of The Valley Independent, a newspaper with a long history but whose presence on Sixth Street dated from 1961.\u00a0 The Valley Independent\u00a0ended operations in this building in September, 1967.\u00a0 Its final edition was published on the last day of 2015.\u00a0 You may note that the Monessen Chamber of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ValleyIndependent-1200-1065x720.jpg\")
<\/p>\n