What is the name of your local paper? Do you enjoy reading the newpaper or do you prefer to watch the news on TV?
Ours is the "Bakersfield Californian" and I prefer it over the TV news. I read the whole paper except the sports...which is the first section dh reads!! Once in awhile I pick up the LA Times.
Our local paper is the Tribune Review. I'll look thru the front section first, thats where the big news and obits are. Then local section to see if anyone I know has done something, good or bad, LOL. Once in a while I'll look at the sports but not often. Then glance thru the want ads. Sad to say it but most of the time the best thing in the paper are the comics.
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Our local paper is the Tribune Review. I'll look thru the front section first, thats where the big news and obits are. Then local section to see if anyone I know has done something, good or bad, LOL. Once in a while I'll look at the sports but not often. Then glance thru the want ads. Sad to say it but most of the time the best thing in the paper are the comics.
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My Dh used to bring the Trib. home from work once in a while for me to read. I used to complain about the Beaver County Times when I lived in Pa. but the newspapers here are worse.
Our local paper is the Kernersville News but we get the Winston-Salem Journal too. We get the USA Today delivered daily too.
We usually watch the 6:00 local news and then 6:30 World news and of course if I have time, I squeeze in the smut news as my DH calls it--Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight.
In my 20s, I was the Matched, Hatched, & Snatched reporter for our local Daily Review Atlas. My boss was in his 90s & our press was one of two like it in the country. The other is supposed to be in the Smithsonian. Sometimes the old boiler would fail and we would be typing in our coats and hats. He always said "Use lots of names and make sure to spell them correctly. People like to see their names in print." Of course, it's a whole new company now and nothing is the same. My favorite parts today are the human interest columns.
Our paper here is Daily Press I pull out the stuff I don't read, sports, classifieds (unless I am wanting to find something) and on Sundays I take out the same plus other stuff flyers for stores I don't go to, "outlook". I watch the news sometimes too
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Our town has the Delaware Gazette which was the oldest family owned newspaper...until about 1 year ago. I really enjoyed reading it when they delivered it (cancelled it because they kept forgetting to give me one and because they kept making errors. Reading a story and tells you to continue to next page and there was no continuation. Also, classified ads with no phone numbers.)
There is also the Columbus Dispatch. I am calling today as a matter of fact to cancel it because I signed up for it right before Christmas and I have not received it 3 times and I only get it 2 times a week. Calling the carrier is worthless...you leave a message and he doesn't call back and doesn't give you a replacement paper.
I get what info I need online or watching the local news.
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Our local paper is the Visalia Times Delta that I ocasionally buy on the weekend. Unless there is a really eye-catching headline, I usually read the ads to the stores I go to first, then the Lifestyle section on local events, then sometimes the regular local news section. If I have enough time I also read the comics. I do watch the TV news and we are in a small enough city that most things are reported on TV before they are printed.
My favorite local newspaper is called, "StarBanner". I really do not read the entire pages of the newspaper; I only read the topic written by Emory Schley, cartoon page, and the rest would be news locally.
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I always read the paper in the morning after I finish breakfast. The Daily Commercial is our town paper. I always save most of the recipes in their cooking section. My favorite columnist is Dick Reed. His articles on religion are very enlightening. He always talks about his family and what they mean to him especially his two daughters. He works with the museum in Leesburg telling how the town began and diaries of famous people that moved here when the town was just beginning. Love the old photos of the people and the town. Lake County has it own paper but that would take all day to read. www.dailycommercial.com Sueanne
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Since moving, we get the Charlotte Observer and The USA Today. I can get a free issue of our local paper at the library--its not really worth much--I can read most of it online too. I also read the online daily Pa. paper where we used to live. I have to update my Mother and Sister on what's going on around them.
I have made a shocking discovery..... there aren't many people around here that read one newspaper a week!, let alone read a daily newspaper. This is just so sad to me!
I have heard time and time again around here " We don't watch the news on TV because it is just too depressing".
How can you not want to know what is going on around you locally--and in the rest of the world?!? An example: My Dh and I had an indepth conversation on Ken Lay after we read that he had passed away. We love to go back and forth with our views. He mentioned this at work and 2 out of the 6 guys that were standing around him actually asked who Ken Lay was and what he was involved in.
I am happy that we are passing this along to our kids too. They are both into reading (my 3 yr. old loves to "read" like us) the newspaper everday and my son watches both the local news and world news every night with us. If he has questions, we try to answer them as honestly as we can. I realize this doesn't work for all families but it does for us.
