By M. Scott Carter

Transcript Staff Writer

For the record, it takes huge rolls of paper, some ink and lots and lots of electricity to publish a newspaper.

Sure, paper can be recycled.

And the ink, well, printers have used everything from boiled plants to charcoal to put words on paper.

But that electricity stuff; if you don’t have that, you’re history.

Especially in today’s digital age.

See, electricity and newspapers go together like Merry and Christmas.

Or Desi and Lucy.

Or Gin and Tonic.

You can blame Ben Franklin. He published the country’s first true newspaper and, in addition, discovered electricity. So it was only a matter of time before the two merged.

And once they did, there was no turning back.

And normally, most people don’t connect the two — at least not until this week.

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