<p>SHAWN GUST/Press The publisher's retirement coupled with financial difficulty has prompted the closure of North Idaho's Rathdrum Star.</p>
December 29, 2011
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December 29, 2011 8:15 p.m.
Star dimmed forever
Rathdrum's weekly newspaper ends; owner/editor retiring
RATHDRUM - Tom Burnett lived up to a dare to start a weekly newspaper in Rathdrum more than seven years ago.