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By The Week: A Snapshot in Time
Open the door of the Staples World and you immediately experience 144 years of knowledge ready to help you. Brenda, Tom, Gary, Janice, Kathy, Dawn, Linda and Robert - eight individuals deeply committed to making sure they accurately capture news and events of the week.
This team has experienced numerous changes in getting the newspaper out - sheet feed presses, dark rooms, typesetting machines to computers, digital photos and scanning.
Understanding the needs of the community and their readers is their number one priority. The Staples World has something for everyone. In addition to the paper, they provide commercial printing and promotional items for local businesses. The most recent additions include the Community Event Calendar and the Welcome Neighbor Campaign.
Their role expands beyond the day to day business of reporting, ad sales and sending the paper to press. The newspaper staff has assisted several high school newspaper advisors and students. They have spoken with high school classes about the aspects of their jobs and the newspaper. They employ summer interns. Many of the interns have gone on to college and become staff on college newspapers.
They work with elementary students studying history by using past issues of the Staples World. They explore the history of World War I and II with fifth graders sharing through stories of people they know. Elementary students look at the fragile pages from newspapers of days gone by and dare to touch the pages even though they know they should not.
A typical session ends with looking up the birth announcements for those who were born here. Their names are in the ‘Hello World’ column. Reading their birth announcement makes it real - when their name and weight is read - they laugh. The message of the community newspaper continues on to another generation.
Each week this close knit team of eight works together to meet the deadlines. They describe themselves as a family engaged in an appropriate amount of bantering to complete the business of sending the paper to press. Once it leaves their hands, it is time to come together for conversation, coffee and reflection.
If you enjoy reading the newspaper in print with a cup of coffee or if you prefer to read the news on your computer - the Staples World is at your finger tips. You can find the newspaper in your mailbox, on the counter at local gas stations and grocery stores or online at www.staplesworld.com.
By the time the paper hits the street, this team of eight has already begun the task of capturing another week.
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