Dan is back!
It appears both CLIPS and Plainfield Today were hacked sometime in the afternoon of January 7th.
Google noticed 'unusual activity' on the account and when I tried to log into Gmail on my laptop, I was led through a recovery routine by which they sent a recovery code to my cellphone which gave me access to reset my password to a new one.
Once that was done, everything seems to be back to normal.
Whew!!