The Signal newspaper will publish five days per week instead of the current seven days effective May 2, its publisher announced Wednesday.

“We are choosing to change the way we are going to publish our newspaper in order to facilitate a financially sustainable business model for the coming years,” Publisher Russ Briley said in a letter to subscribers in Wednesday’s edition of the paper.

Sunday and Monday publication will be eliminated in favor of an enhanced “Weekend” edition distributed on Saturdays, Briley said.

Signal Multimedia will continue to provide “all-day coverage seven days a week” on its website, signalscv.com, Briley said. “There will be no decrease in the amount of local news that we currently offer.”

Its 100th birthday less than four years away, The Signal has been the Santa Clarita Valley’s community newspaper since Feb. 7, 1919. Initially a weekly product published on Fridays, it switched to Thursdays in 1924.

Not until December 1965 would a second day (Sunday) be warranted. In 1966, then-publisher Scott Newhall took the paper to three days. Then came the rapid growth of the 1970s and 1980s, and The Signal grew with the town, pushing to five, then six and finally seven days in the late 1980s.

Morris Multimedia has owned the paper since 1978.

“Our company is committed to this community and has been privileged to be the steward and owner of this critical community advocate for the last 37 years,” Briley said.