Former New Jersey Newspaper Ad Salesman Now Has a Thriving Dog Walking Business

The weekly that employed Mike Lynn closed in 2015

“None of my younger clientele still receive newspaper delivery,” Mike Lynn, co-owner with his wife Angela of Lynn’s Pet Care in Midland Park, N.J., tells Fishbowl. So in one sense, Lynn has very much moved from the newspaper past to its present.

In 2015, the couple who owned Bergen County weekly newspaper The Villadom Times decided it was time to retire. The final edition published March 8 and left Lynn with no more ad-sales job. He had already been tending to his dog walking enterprise on the side, and since that time, has given Lynn’s Pet Care his full-time attention.

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