FORT FAIRFIELD (AP) – A newspaper that’s served the interests of the Aroostook potato community for 112 years is on the verge of folding.

The Fort Fairfield Review says its Jan. 7 edition will likely be its last.

The paper’s editor, Kim Millard, wrote in Tuesday’s edition that “if something doesn’t happen, there may be only one more edition of the paper after this week.”

For much of its history the Review was owned by the Harvey family. Tom Harvey, now an English teacher in South Paris, sold the paper to David Henley of Woodstock, New Brunswick in 1988.

“I’m kind of speechless,” Harvey said. “This is more than sad, more than shocking. It’s partly because of family heritage, I guess, but I can’t see a town without its newspaper.”

He added: “My father and grandfather would spin in their graves.”

Henley owned newspapers in New Brunswick that were sold to the J.D. Irving newspaper group last year. He still owns the Review and the Katahdin Times.

Millard’s column said some were “holding out hope someone will buy the paper in the next week.”

She was unavailable for comment.

The Harvey family bought the newspaper in 1902 when it was named the Northern Leader. The name was changed to the Review and published by Chandler Harvey until his death in 1940.

His son Kingdon Harvey, Tom Harvey’s father, was editor from 1940 until Tom Harvey became publisher in 1979. He sold it to Henley in 1988.

“It just got to be too much for my wife and I,” Harvey said. “It was just too hard with 17 to 18 hour days, sometimes seven days a week. We could not keep it up.”

The paper’s circulation is around 2,400. It covers Limestone, Easton, Presque Isle and Fort Fairfield.