FORMER ANNARBOR.COM reporter Lisa Allmendinger announced on June 2 that she was shuttering her online news site DexterUpdate.com. Modeled on Allmendinger’s popular ChelseaUpdate.com news site, DexterUpdate.com wasn’t able to get the financial support necessary to support it.

According to Allmendinger, she had plans to expand the successful ChelseaUpdate.com model of hyper-local journalism to surrounding communities. According to Allmendinger, members of the Dexter community had asked her to launch the site. However, after less than half a year, the following was posted to the front page of DexterUpdate.com:

Elizabeth and Ross Richardson, Marcia Cavan, Lisa Carolin, Alan Scafuri and I have enjoyed the last 5 months bringing you all the news that’s fit to post about Dexter.

We’ve worked super hard for all of you, we’ve had a lot of fun and met a lot of wonderful people along the way.

Unfortunately, we’ve been unable to secure the financial support necessary from the community to continue this news site. And for that we are saddened.So for now, we are suspending operations in Dexter.