No newspaper next Thursday, delivery time to change July 16

Albany News readers and advertisers are reminded that no newspaper will be published, either in print or online, during the week of July 6.

“We will not have a July 9 issue,” said News editor Melinda Lucas. “Donnie and I are going to take that week off to spend time with our family, and hopefully, that won’t be an inconvenience or source of confusion for anyone.”

The News office will be open on Monday through Thursday of that week, but will be closed on Friday, as it has been for the last few weeks.

Print Schedule

Starting with the July 16 edition, customers who have gotted used to buying their papers on Wednesday night will have to wait until Thursday mornings again.

The Albany News will be printed in Lubbock from now on as a result of decisions made by the parent company of the Abilene Reporter-News.

The Abilene press is shutting down as of this week, and after researching several printing plants in the area, the News staff has decided to go back with the Lubbock firm that printed the paper for several months in late 2018 and early 2019 when the Reporter-News building was damaged by a fire.

“We will upload the pages electronically on the same schedule that we do now,” said Lucas, “but it will not be delivered back to us until the middle of the night on Wednesdays.”

Rather than being distributed to newsstands on Wednesday nights, the paper will be taken to local stores early on Thursday mornings, as it used to be until the last year or so.

Mail and online subscribers should not see any difference in delivery time, said Lucas.