Linden is located about 100 miles due west of Montgomery near the Mississippi border, deep in the rural Alabama Black Belt. Brian Edwards contributed to this story.

Goodloe Sutton told The Associated Press this week's issue of The Democrat-Reporter of Linden, Alabama, could be his last. Besides owning the paper, Sutton serves as its editor and publisher.

Linden Elementary math coach JoAnn Smoot-Bryant works with third grade students including Laniyah Sims, right, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Linden, Alabama.

Linden is a town of about 2,000 people in west-central Alabama. Sutton told USA Today in 2015 that The Democrat-Reporter’s circulation, once more than 7,000, had fallen to about 3,000 subscribers.

An Alabama Editor Urges the K.K.K. to ‘Ride Again,’ and His Small Town Winces Goodloe Sutton, the publisher and editor of The Democrat-Reporter in Linden, Ala., in 2015.

Two decades ago, the editor of the tiny Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama, was being talked about as a potential contender for the Pulitzer Prize. A congressional citation read on the ...

The family of McKenzie Adams, 9, of Linden, Alabama, said she died by suicide after being bullied with racist taunts by classmates. Police said they are investigating and have not seen reports of ...

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Goodloe Sutton – who is the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter newspaper in Linden, Alabama – confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser on Monday that he authored the Feb. 14 editorial calling ...