A Word From The Publisher

As the spring moves into summer, the real estate season is clearly upon us, as can be seen from the large number of advertisements in this paper. At the same time, we are also seeing an increase in the amount of sports material submitted by teams, as well as material from many other community groups.

We have heard that some people are not entirely happy that there is so much advertising in the paper at this time of year. We hope they will keep in mind that because of that advertising we are able to bring our readers a more in depth newspaper than would otherwise be possible.

Because we mail this newspaper under the post office's "periodicals" rate, we are required by postal mailing regulations to contain at least 25% news material vs. advertising. In fact, because we consider that to be too advertising dense, we in fact keep our ratio closer to 50%. However, 50% of a 100 page newspaper leaves a very large amount of space to also bring you news of the community.

So, yes, we do contain a large amount of advertising at this time of year, but those advertisers are contributing to the breadth of the newspaper, which in turn helps the community know what's going on.

Besides, don't all you homeowners check out the real estate ads to see how your house stacks up? ;-)

Meg Morgan Norris

Publisher