By GEORGE CUSTER/Editor — Hopefully you’ve seen The Herald’s newsstand copy by now and can’t wait to get your next edition. Didn’t get one? Well, our second, and final free copy will hit the streets on 7/11. We didn’t print enough so we’ll fix that (remember, that’s extra costs for us).
The newsstand price for The Herald starting on July 25 will be $1. You can’t buy very much for a dollar anymore. We’re hoping that we will be able to keep bringing you our news in printed form. However, we are going out on a limb to bring you what you asked us for: a real live newspaper. If you know a merchant, ask them to advertise in The Herald – it supports a healthy community and is an investment in local journalism.
Many larger, more affluent cities have quit the whole “paper” thing and are now online only. Only in Oakridge will you find a publisher going in the opposite direction. We are not asking for much, we really only need to cover our extra costs. Selecting, gathering, compressing and sending selected stories to an outside publisher takes a lot of extra time. He then sends it back for proofing – more time. Once it looks good, we fill our copier with oversize paper and print (more stand around time).
Then someone, a volunteer, has to fold every sheet in half and stuff pages 3-6 into the folded front page (better get it right!). We (volunteers again) then arrange them into stacks of ten or twenty five. They don’t fly off our counter to their destinations by themselves, oh no. More volunteers decide who will take them around to the merchants – from Pleasant Hill to the west and to Crescent Lake Junction to the east.
I hope none of my crew of volunteers plan on taking any time off. Who would do all this? MAYBE YOU? Our contact info is on our site and in the paper. We could use the help.
The Food Bank feeds people with nourishing and healthy food. The Herald feeds people with news and information so that they can be better informed citizens able to make decisions in their daily life.
We, at The Herald, will make every effort to provide our readers with current and pertinent news and information. We’re always open to comments and suggestions.
Most of all, we need your support. Give what you can, whenever you can. Your dollars help to support journalism in your community.
George Custer lives in Oakridge with his wife Sayre. George is a former smokejumper from his hometown of Cave Junction, a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. and ran a construction company in Southern California. George assumed the volunteer duties as the Editor of the Highway 58 Herald in 2022. He loves riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, building all things wood, and playing drums on the weekends in his office.
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