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Have you ever thought about what it would be like not to have a community newspaper that holds local government accountable and reports what the city, county, school board and hospital authority are doing and not doing?

Have you ever thought about what it would be like not to have coverage of high school sports, school honor rolls, spelling bee winners, the success of the school debate team or to not have a place where you could easily locate obituaries, church news or community happenings?

How do you keep up with what is going on in town? Where do you learn how your tax dollars are being spent? How do you keep your eyes on local government? Where can you go to find out what county commission, city council, the board of education and, of course, the hospital authority, are doing, or not doing?

How do you follow your favorite teams? Where do you find out about concerts, plays, musicals, festivals and community events? How do you stay informed? How do you learn the health department scores of local restaurants? How do know what property is being bought and sold in your neighborhood? How do you find out about new businesses coming to town?

Your local newspaper is the one place you can find all of these things and more.

These are some of the reasons you should support local journalism.

Your subscriptions help ensure that local journalists can be at work each day holding public officials accountable, accessing public records, attending government meetings, uncovering corruption, while also covering community events, schools, recreational activities and, of course, local sports.

With your subscriptions, you help keep an eye on the public purse and help hold elected and appointed officials accountable; you help celebrate our schools and tell the great stories of the people in our great community.

Maybe you don’t like the national media but your local newspaper is out in the community every day covering city council, county commission, the board of education, state government, along with positive coverage of our schools, businesses, churches, festivals and community events.

We are in the community covering things that no one else covers, every single day.

We will always give you an open and free marketplace of ideas, a forum to share your points of view through letters to the editor and guest columns both in print and online.

When you subscribe to a local newspaper, you are doing more than paying to get the printed edition delivered to your home each day and getting full access to all our online products and services.

Support local journalism.