A little more than a year and a half after relaunching, local blog Borderstan is shutting down again this Friday.

“Basically, what it came down to is that we just didn’t find the support of local advertisers,” says Borderstan co-editor Tim Regan. “But that’s been apparent to us for a while, so it was not surprising. We certainly were in need of advertising throughout the entire life of the site. I was not personally surprised when the news came down.”

Local News Now LLC, which also operates ARLnow.com and Reston Now, acquired Borderstan from Matt Rhoades and Luis Gomez, local bloggers who founded the site in 2008 to focus on “the area around the border of two police districts on 15th Street NW.”

Since then, Borderstan has increased its coverage area as far north as Columbia Heights, as far east as H St. NE (Local News Now closed Hill Now this July), and west to Foggy Bottom. It often broke stories about goings-on throughout Northwest and Northeast D.C., earned the title of “Best Revival” from Washington City Paper.

The decision won’t result in any lost jobs. While Regan will continue at Local News Now (newshounds might already have noticed his byline at ARLnow), co-editor Andrew Ramonas is leaving the company for a new job.

When Regan looks back at their run, he says his two favorite articles are the “infamous fart fine story” and their scoop about Guy Fieri’s visit to D.C. “That story is funny because we put a lot more time and energy into a Guy Fieri story than you’re supposed to,” he says. “We reported the hell out of that story.”

Borderstan distinguished itself with hyperlocal beat reporting that quelled hearsay, like dispelling rumors that Adams Morgan stalwart Dan’s Cafe was closing, and investigating the mystery of the missing park firetruck.

“My philosophy was always, ‘If I have a question about that, certainly someone else has a question about that,'” says Regan.

Local News Now LLC publisher Scott Brodbeck told Washingtonian that the site’s closure is entirely about the business-side, and the company’s other publications are not in trouble.

For this final week of publication, much of the site will read as normal, though Regan says, “hopefully we’ll be able to tie beautiful bows on all the story threads we have,” followed by a retrospective on Friday.

“It’s obviously just sad. I really did put blood, sweat and tears into this,” says Regan. “It’s sad any time a great local news outlet goes down. But at the same time, unlike some other markets that are losing local news outlets, D.C. still has so many great local publications so I don’t think the state of local journalism is declining too much in D.C.”