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Newspapers...


Our local newspaper, "The Taney County Times", is pretty cool. We don't have a lot of "exciting" news, and they don't do national or world news, it is all very local, and rural news, and only published once a week.

Almost anything happening in the county court gets a mention, but most of the crimes committed here are pretty small stuff. Almost all of that paper is written by one woman, Jann Clark, and she's awesome. She is as unbiased as anyone could be and she has no problem writing about local politics, and she doesn't miss a lick or cut anyone any slack.

Aside from "News" they do a lot of features on the local schools, school sports and academics, and local hunting and fishing. I don't think there's a kid in the county that doesn't get their picture in there for something. And they have "Repots" from the really small communities here that are way out in the sticks. They read something like "Wilma's daughter visited her and brought the grandkids. We baked a big chicken and had all the trimmings. It was a lot of fun. Mabel had an operation on her big toe. It went good and she should be back at work in a week or two." There's a lot of that kind of "News" in there.

I write "Letters to the Editor" now and then, and most of the time they get published wink They're a pretty big source of fun around here and can cause a lot of commotion and scuttlebutt.

The locals here will still pony up for the paper. It's only 50¢ and you just can't get that "News" anywhere else laugh
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