If you are from a small town (name, location), do you have a daily/weekly local newspaper? If so, what kind of news does it cover? If not, where do you get local news about your town (city council, elections, local events, sports news, etc.)?
If you are from a larger city (name, location) with a daily metropolitan newspaper, what local news coverage would you miss the most if that paper were to shut down? Why would this coverage be missed?
I'm from a small toen outside of Atlanta, GA. It's called John's Creek. There is a relatively small newspaper and it gets delievered everyday. It covers changes in the communities and recent neighborhood crimes. But nothing really on elections. It touches breifly on sports in high school
Posted by: Alyssa Pariselli | March 16, 2009 at 07:03 AM
I'm from Colorado Springs which is similar to Charlotte in size. Without the Gazette which is the local paper there be very little coverage of local government and projects that it funds such as roadwork. I don't know of any other source that covers the city's government affairs.
Posted by: Chris Kennedy | March 16, 2009 at 11:59 AM
I am from Salisbury Maryland a pretty decent size town. The newspaper we get is called The Daily Times. It covers a lot of what's going on with the government and is very big on high school sports teams along with Salisbury University. There may be other papers that cover the elections and what not, but i am not very aware of them.
Posted by: Amanda Wright | March 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM
I'm from a small town called Keller outside of Dallas, Texas. We get a weekly newspaper, The Keller Citizen, which covers news, sports at the high school level, weather, business, and of course editorials which can get pretty fiery and interesting. Small town politics are very personal where I come from, and the Citizen has a reputation for taking sides and not being objective. At my house we also receive the Dallas Morning News as well as the Fort Worth Star Telegram which I like because it gives us a better idea of what's happening at the state level with national and world news sprinkled in there as well. I would miss the Dallas Morning News because they report on Dallas sports teams (Mavericks, Stars, Cowboys) and I would miss the Texas perspective on things haha. Also, the DMN and the Star Telegram are delivered daily, so everything's more up to date.
Posted by: Kaitlyn blakey | March 16, 2009 at 12:22 PM
I'm from a small town in FL called Naples. I can't imagine getting any of my local news without the Naples Daily News. Without it, I would be blind about what is going on in my community. I sit down or at least skim it everyday I see it. If it failed along with their online site, I feel like the community that I know and grew up in, would cease to exist.
Posted by: Hewit Hawn | March 16, 2009 at 06:21 PM
I'm from a small town in northern Connecticut called Woodstock. We do have a weekly newspaper called The Woodstock Villager. This paper is popular for its coverage on town politics and debates. It also features high school students for their achievements both academically and athletically. Finally The Villager writes about events going on in the town and surrounding areas.
Posted by: Reilly Sowka | March 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I am from a small town just outside of Charlotte called mint hill. We have a weekly newspaper that covers what goes around in the town. It is mostly information about new things in the town and what people did that week that is really importnat. Also there are a lot of sports in this newspaper because we have two rival hgih schools in the same town.It does not mention anytihng outside of our town.
Posted by: Taylor Eason | March 17, 2009 at 06:24 PM
I'm originally from Queens, New York, and then moved to a smaller city outside of Dallas, Texas, called Plano. We had a small paper that would get placed outside of neighborhood houses and at local schools. With this I found out about our school's games, local parades, and little things that were going out throughout the community. Without this, I would feel a bit lost. The newspaper kept everyone together, and everyone on top of the current events that were going on in our community.
Posted by: Ashley Walker | March 17, 2009 at 06:25 PM
I am from a small town outside of charlotte called Matthews. We have a small newspaper that covers some of the local interest things, however it doesn't have much funding so it doesn't come out very often. However, without I don't think there would be much local coverage. The Charlotte Observer covers somethings but most of it is not focused on the doings of a small town.
Posted by: Katelyn Morgan | March 17, 2009 at 07:06 PM
I am from Chung Li city, Taiwan. We do not have any local newspapers, but we have the national newspapers. It is cover all the local news, the government politics, economy, weather of each state, etc. Everyone is reading the same news and they can get the information about their whole country. It is hard for the local newspaper to survive because Taiwan is not a really big country and people do not need the local detail.
Posted by: Bob Hsu | March 17, 2009 at 07:12 PM
Relatively small in size is Anderson, South Carolina, my hometown. It does have a newspaper, however, the main coverage tends to be of no major importance. Usually the front page has a picture of a teacher who got the Golden Apple Award or whatever excellence award there is in my district. That, or some major wreck that occurred on one of the two main roads. Not that lethal wrecks or teachers aren't important in society, I just think that they should be the front page story. One time there was even a front page article about chicken fighting in some even smaller town outside of Anderson and a transcript of the interview between the man with the chickens residing under his porch and the reporter was printed. My local newspaper seems to have a problem finding good news to cover. And using spell check.
Posted by: Aiken Hamilton | March 17, 2009 at 07:51 PM