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Former newspaper owner, publisher dies

Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 12 years, 11 months AGO
| June 18, 2012 7:45 AM

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<p>SHAWN GUST/Press The publisher's retirement coupled with financial difficulty has prompted the closure of North Idaho's Rathdrum Star.</p>

Tom Burnett, who founded the Rathdrum Star weekly newspaper before it closed in December due to his retirement, died at his home on Friday night, acquaintances said. He was 70.

Burnett has worked at several newspapers over the past 50 years, including from being a copy boy in Stamford, Conn., to owning the former weekly Post Falls Tribune in the 1980s. The Star was the first paper he started.

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