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Walkerton · the four-title weekly group of the southern county
Lakeville's paper was a satellite of a Walkerton group. The masthead that verifies the Standard names its publisher as a company, not a person: the Independent-News Co. of Walkerton, publishing the Walkerton Independent, the North Liberty News, the Lakeville Standard, and "The St. Joseph County Weeklies." The group's own senior title carries the line forward — the Walkerton Independent becoming the Independent-News — and it is the parent paper's run on Hoosier State Chronicles that carries Lakeville town, utility, school, and sports news from 1928 to 1990 (the coverage article below), long past any date this build can give the Standard itself. That is the whole shape of the town's press economics: a town of Lakeville's size did not sustain a standalone pressroom; it sustained a title inside a neighbouring town's group, printed under that group's masthead, and when the title's own record goes dark the parent's coverage continues in its place. No publisher-person record for the StandardThe contraction line of the branch is therefore short enough to state whole: own title, group-owned, by 1926; parent-paper coverage in the reached run to 1990; no town outlet today.