The Star Tribune has gotten rid of almost all of its "coin racks" that were once ubiquitous on busy city corners.
Driving the news: The paper's prep sports team leader Paul Klauda wrote that boxes would be taken out of service at the end of March, citing a letter on a box he visited.
Yes, but: Strib spokesperson Chris Iles said 65 boxes remain in Minnesota as some of the company's distributors have opted to keep them. That's down from its peak of 1,500, Iles said.
Follow the money: The Strib is raising the cost of a single Sunday copy from $3 to $4 and Klauda wrote that a letter hanging on a nearby box said that $4 is "more coinage than the news box can physically handle."
In other end-of-an-era newspaper news, the Strib on Thursday stopped printing TV guide listings.
