Many moons ago, I was editor of the weekly Peoria Times-Observer, and one of my duties was to upload each week’s articles to the newspaper’s online version.
For a variety of reasons, the company stopped posting articles and switched to a static site with contact information. Those reasons included:

Under-powered, clunky computers that made the task tiresome [...]

GateHouse Media has bought out TimesNewspapers, the chain of local weeklies for which I once worked as editor of the Peoria Times-Observer. The other newspapers that have been snatched up include the Chillicothe Times-Bulletin, the Morton Times-News, the East Peoria Times-Courier and the Washington Times-Reporter. These papers had a combined circulation of 31,000 (one can [...]