Editorial: Let’s Talk About the Death of the St. Croix Avis

By 2019, the Avis became such a rarity that Government House struggled to circulate the paper for staffers not working in St. Croix.

After a 180-year reign, the longest-running print newspaper in the U.S. Virgin Islands announced in January that it would cease publication. The paper’s owner and publisher, Rena Brodhurst, shared the news with readers in a letter published in their Sunday-Monday print edition. 

In late 2019, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett awarded Brodhurst the first D. H…