Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
The second edition of the Greater Salem Boys & Girls Club newspaper, What’s the Word, is now available on salemnews.com.
The first edition from the club’s student writers debuted in March. The May issue is even larger than the first, with a boost to eight pages.
What’s the Word is written by members of the Media Club, a group of 11- to 15-year-olds that meets each Tuesday afternoon.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
This week’s column:
In the time it takes you to read this column, gas prices will have probably risen another few cents.
As I write this Friday morning, the news wires are reporting gasoline prices have hit yet another record high, reaching a national average of $3.83 a gallon. The $3.82 a gallon I spent filling the family pickup that morning had me yearning for the diminutive, fuel-sipping Ford Festiva I drove early in my career.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
This week’s column…
It has been a little more than a month since we added online commenting to stories on salemnews.com.
The response has been tremendous, with thousands of comments by readers on topics ranging from the important (the override debate in Beverly) to the somewhat silly (the fight over racy T-shirts at the mall).
We’re learning the world of online debate is different from the give-and-take on our opinion pages. In the print edition, a byline and … continued »
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Posted in Wenham, Hamilton on May 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s this week’s editor’s column:
“I am OUTRAGED that you ran this story today. You are well aware that we have town meetings going on tomorrow in Wenham and Monday in Hamilton and that we are in the middle of a contentious override election. Clearly this story will have an impact … This causes me to feel the paper is trying to unfairly influence the election. That is wrong.”
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Book lovers should make their way to The Salem News building here in Beverly this weekend for a used book sale to benefit the Newspapers in Education program. The program distributes The Salem News to the schools for free, and teachers use the papers to instruct students in everything from math to current events.
The sale runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, May 3) and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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