Every small town has a local newspaper that mainly has pages dedicated to sports news, written by parents highlighting their own children's accolades. "Johnny scored the winning goal to a thunderous applaud from the crowds. With his superlative skills as a soccer star, Johnny will add this first goal to the list of achievements that he is accruing for the IVY's. Johnny will turn 6 in October."
Our local newspaper is printed once a week, for a Thursday delivery. The news, is usually not what I would consider earth shattering news. It is local news that make you wonder why you live in a small town. "The town meeting was held into the early hours of dawn. All view points were expressed before the debate began whether the town should approve the budget to purchase books for the newly built library." The vote will be held at the next town meeting.
The section of our local newspaper that I loved the most was the police and fire blog. The calls that were called to their direct line were recorded and placed in a log. Within the log, there was the basic, locked out of house, locked out of car, missing dog, cat in tree, type of calls. In each paper, there were a few gems that kept you coming back for more:
October 31st:
10:00 am Toddler locks frantic mother out of home. Police break open 1st floor window to rescue toddler and open front door.
10:15 am Call for back-up assistance, frantic mother screaming obscenties at police for breaking window.
11:16 am Anonymous Caller phones, dog in the middle of Central St. looking lost.
11:18 am Police drive by Central St., no dog in the middle of road to be found.
11:20 am Caller phones, dog sitting in middle of road looking ill.
11:25 am Police drive by address, no dog in middle of road.
2:00 pm Parent on Smith St.calls frantically looking for child.
2:05 pm Police search house and yard, school bus shows up late dropping off child.
3:00 pm Parent calls school and police, child missing, did not get off bus.
3:06 pm Child found asleep on bus, bus driver to drop off at end of route.
7:00 pm Caller reports bear in parking lot of Kmart.
7:10 pm Police reports man in bear costume lost car keys, searching parking lot on hands and knees.
Now you know why I cancelled my newspaper. Does your town have a local newspaper?
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Comments: 41
I do enjoy reading the stupid blog column of break in to car on such in such road car was unlocked. Duh, not considered a break in, lock your darn doors! Lol
I also like looking at police beat, they actually give people who have warrents out see it in the paper to give tham a warning that they better get theior butts into the court house to pay fines.
i'm not sure if we did when i lived in IL. i lived in harrisburg, marion & herrin IL up until i was 11 and then we moved again. they were super small towns, so i'm sure they probably have one.
now i live in a city and we just get the arizona republic on the weekends.
I've been in the papers, for burning my dinner and making the fire trucks come to my home.
I'm trying to get Steve to pay for a year's subscription to the paper for me. I mostly want Sunday for the coupons, but they also have the store sales ad in Wednesdays and on Monday they have what the call the mini page for kids...I'm using it for Jasmine for history.
~Pay It Forward~
That sort of thing.
I was born to live in a small town. Someplace where you can walk to the library, grocery store, school and a local restaurant (and ideally, the beach or other body of water) without killing your feet. Someplace with hilariously pathetic news, and rarely anything seriously bad. I would be so happy.
The worst part for us... our neighbors come into our garage and borrow our yard tools (without asking) a free for all. We don't do that, we buy our own as that is what owning a house is all about.
And, ayups, my 'town' has a newspaper, likely every day and it's quite the heay tome generally. It's more (WAY) on the scary side over funny though. Course my 'town' I hear is the 5th largest city in the nation and pretty much none of all them folks know each other, want to, or have rudimentary community values so it just kind of loses a lot for me........
I hope your friend gets back to hawaii one day. I know that family is so important in their culture.
Thank you for saying on Archie, it is important to him but life got in the way, the Air Force originally took him off the island and he's not been back. I too hope he is able to go before it's his last trip. If I hadn't gone and squandered all my holdings and lost the job I'd take him for sure. Could happen yet, never, ever, say never!