As attorney Tom Brabec remembers it, he first heard of a new local newspaper at church. Before he could get home for Sunday dinner, he already had plans to buy an ad from the H-F Chronicle.
Brabec said he was the only advertiser on the Chronicle’s website initially. “The ad would blink off. Five seconds later, it came back, and it was me,” he said. “The Chevy dealer caught wind the next week, and then…


