The defunct Santa Barbara Information-Press is continuous to invoice subscribers, based on one octogenarian in Noleta. Her pal, Sandy Shertzer, contacted the Unbiased to unfold the phrase, saying his “Noleta grandma buddy” had $120 routinely deducted from her checking account on September 9, seven weeks after the newspaper introduced its July 21 chapter.
Shertzer stated his pal, who’s 87 years outdated and requested that her named not be used, had obtained the paper at her door till October 22, when the Information-Press stopped house deliveries and started delivering by way of the U.S. mail. She stated that “forewarned is forearmed” in letting others know of the subscription cost that may nonetheless be coming from Ampersand Publishing.
Calling himself “an over-educated child from the Bronx Excessive Faculty of Science” with a background within the regulation, Shertzer accompanied his pal to the financial institution, which canceled the automated funds and returned her cash.
The chapter Trustee Jerry Namba didn’t return messages asking for info on the place subscribers are in who’ve been billed by the bankrupt paper. In a collectors assembly on September 7, Information-Press proprietor and writer Wendy McCaw was unable to reply questions on subscriptions, as an alternative deferring to ex-employees, who her attorneys stated they’d not been in a position to attain and who’re nonetheless owed their final paychecks.
