CORTLAND, NY (607NewsNow) — The Cortland Standard is ending publication. 

The company is filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the newspaper’s 17 employees are being laid off. “The family-owned newspaper will cease publication, a casualty of declining readership and increasing costs, including an expected 25% tariff on newsprint,” according to a note on the newspaper’s website.

The Cortland Standard published their first edition in 1867 and moved to a building on Main Street in Cortland in 1883, where it had been located ever since.

Publisher Evan Geibel says the decision to close operations was not easy.

“It was a difficult decision for the owners. This is, after all, a family business — ever since my great-great grandfather, William H. Clark, purchased the Cortland Standard and Journal in 1876. My family loves this newspaper, and this community,” Geibel wrote. “They will miss reading the Cortland Standard every day, too. I’m grateful for their support, patience and generosity as the company struggled.”

Geibel also says he’s proud of the Cortland Standard’s long history. The final issue is today, March 13.