Sadly, on Friday, the Rocky Mountain News closed up shop after almost 150 years.  Up until Friday Denver has had two newspapers, the other being the Denver Post. This provided Denver and Colorado an abundance of news and commentary – a blessing considering that prior to the past 20 years the city and state were not considered a major population center or political power outside of the western mountain region.

Although I read the two newspapers almost daily online, I can’t remember the last time I purchased a newspaper. With the exception of flipping through a discarded newspaper on the bus, my news content is welled from online resources and news aggregators. Since the transfer from print to online has not been friendly to advertiser revenues I suppose I’m to blame as anyone else for the demise.

The last issue contained nostalgic articles from the Rocky’s columnists and newsfolk, and a compilation of notable headlines from the past 150 years.

On September 12th, 2001, I grabbed about eight copies of the Rocky Mountain News, of course struck and stunned by the events of the previous morning. These have been gathering dust under my bed since then, so I figured I’d share the front and first few pages of the Rocky Mountain News from 9/12/01.

I guess if I wanted to sell a few copies on eBay now would be as good a time as any.

Meanwhile if you yearn to still read the Rocky, you can find copies lining the walls of The Brown in Breckenridge.