By Kay Mindar
Are small-town newspapers thriving?
Such as our own Mountain Mail because they're better, or because they happen to be located in small towns?
Community newspapers only do quite nicely, because they have not forgotten their mission, their responsibility to their readers, the service they must provide to their advertisers, their duty to report the good and the bad; to expose corrupt public servants who betray the public trust and seek to serve themselves first at the expense of the taxpayers.
I'm willing to grant that small-town papers have been less likely to get bloated and arrogant and out-of-touch than their big-city brethren. A few community newspapers do a great job of serving their readers and exposing corrupt public servants. Many more do a great job of publishing photos and personal stories of their readers, but generally shy away from any exposing of corruption.
Think of it this way; their communities are too small for Craigslist to have gotten to (yet); in most cases they serve populations less transient and less Internet-addicted than those of big metropolitan areas; and nobody ever looked to them for national or international news, so the fact that you can get all that on the Internet now is irrelevant. The median age of residents in small markets is much higher than the median age of residents in metro areas. And people who are older are much more likely to read newspapers than the under 35 set. But we try to cater to everyone.
The Luna Community Center wishes to thank Jerry Sawyer for his service and dedication in clearing out the snow from the parking and driving areas of the community center. This was not an easy task after our record snowfall here in Luna.
There is another night of sacred music being planned for all denominations and communities far and wide. The past two programs have been such a success we would ask all who can participate to please contact Alberta Nicolds and for those who just want to enjoy the evening we will keep you posted as to a date and time.
There are still project Noah flyers available if you will send a self addressed legal envelope to Kaye Mindar P.O. Box 42 Luna, New Mexico 87824.
Many of us have had to use our storage in these times of extreme weather and that’s great! That’s what we are doing this for. Now we can work slowly on rotation and restocking. We want you to store what you use and use what you store.
Facebook has opened a whole new world of meeting my relatives. I know some get tired of me asking just how or if we are related but I have had so much fun talking and comparing notes with everyone.
I do keep my security set very high but inspiration allows me to write a message and it literally can explode with names and stories from there.
Quote of the week:
“Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.”
~Author Unknown
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