I have no visibility on what's going on at the Patch, so John Horgan's blurb carries the day for now:

When it comes to community-based journalism, it's dog-eat-dog out there, to put it simply.

Competition for eager readers and advertising dollars is unrelenting and fierce, whether you're talking about electronic or print versions of the information-gathering business.

Patch, a relatively new hyper-local Internet news source, apparently is learning that very painful lesson too.

Owned by AOL since 2009, Patch, which has online news outlets in a number of Peninsula towns, is scaling back, according to sources familiar with its operations here. Budgets for freelance journalists and correspondents have been slashed and coverage has been trimmed back to accommodate the cutbacks.

But one thing is for sure, the Daily Post is easier to find lately.  The blue boxes have popped up on the Avenew like mushrooms after a week of rain.  I'm not sure what they are "testing" but I hope they figure it out before April 1st and cut back a bit so there's room to walk.  There are five or six boxes on a single block now!  Enough is indeed enough.