I'm reading a lot of shortsighted commentary in response to this article. 
First, a confession. I only read this article because someone two hours from where I am alerted me to it by internet; I subscribe to the G&M by internet not in physical form and I might not have been aware of  this article had I not been alerted. So I am part of the problem.
The Flesherton Adance has been gone for >20 years; amalgamated with the Dundalk Herald with the same banner just with Dundalk and area content. And it's not called the Flesherton Advance any longer; it's the Advance so at least not pretending to represent the community that it once did.
The erosion of "community" in rural Ontario has been going on for decades. Schools, hospitals and nursing homes continue to be consolidated because 'bigger is better'. The impact of the internet is just one more nail in the coffin. Don't get freaked out about Postmedia or CBC folks; we are undergoing structural change in our society; learn how to embrace it.