Bradford Courier
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'''" Bradford <I>Courier</I> was over a hundred years old, the last survivor of a newspaper war that had gone on for close to forty years back around the turn of the century, with four newspapers involved. Just a little country weekly usually running eight full-size pages, sometimes more and sometimes less; it occupied a single-story block building toward the edge of downtown, a block or so up the street from the [[Spee-D-Mart]]. No longer printed on site -- it hadn't been since the early 1960s -- much of the building was little used anymore. The majority of the operation was concentrated in a front room, where there were several computers sitting on several extraordinarily messy desks."''{{Cite|HS|11}} The paper is actually printed in [[Hawthorne]].{{Cite|HS|10}} | '''" Bradford <I>Courier</I> was over a hundred years old, the last survivor of a newspaper war that had gone on for close to forty years back around the turn of the century, with four newspapers involved. Just a little country weekly usually running eight full-size pages, sometimes more and sometimes less; it occupied a single-story block building toward the edge of downtown, a block or so up the street from the [[Spee-D-Mart]]. No longer printed on site -- it hadn't been since the early 1960s -- much of the building was little used anymore. The majority of the operation was concentrated in a front room, where there were several computers sitting on several extraordinarily messy desks."''{{Cite|HS|11}} The paper is actually printed in [[Hawthorne]].{{Cite|HS|10}} | ||
| - | It had once employed five full-time and two part-time employees. By | + | It had once employed five full-time and two part-time employees. By 2000 it was just {{SwName|Lloyd|Weber}} who did sports, {{SwName|Hazel|Perkins}}, bookkeeper and ad saleswoman and {{SwName|Emily|Holst}}. Emily first was employed covering the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, but kept expanding her coverage and was even scheduled to learn how to prepare the paper for printing and allowing Lloyd to take a vacation.{{Cite|HS|24}} |
{{SwName|Jennlynn|Swift}} considered the messy desk of {{SwName|Stan|Warshawski}} at [[Lambdatron]] to be comparable to the offices of the Courier.{{Cite|MC|8}} | {{SwName|Jennlynn|Swift}} considered the messy desk of {{SwName|Stan|Warshawski}} at [[Lambdatron]] to be comparable to the offices of the Courier.{{Cite|MC|8}} | ||
Revision as of 23:27, 10 October 2011
Bradford Courier is the weekly newspaper in Bradford, Michigan.
'" Bradford Courier was over a hundred years old, the last survivor of a newspaper war that had gone on for close to forty years back around the turn of the century, with four newspapers involved. Just a little country weekly usually running eight full-size pages, sometimes more and sometimes less; it occupied a single-story block building toward the edge of downtown, a block or so up the street from the Spee-D-Mart. No longer printed on site -- it hadn't been since the early 1960s -- much of the building was little used anymore. The majority of the operation was concentrated in a front room, where there were several computers sitting on several extraordinarily messy desks."HS11 The paper is actually printed in Hawthorne.HS10
It had once employed five full-time and two part-time employees. By 2000 it was just Lloyd Weber who did sports, Hazel Perkins, bookkeeper and ad saleswoman and Emily Holst. Emily first was employed covering the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, but kept expanding her coverage and was even scheduled to learn how to prepare the paper for printing and allowing Lloyd to take a vacation.HS24
Jennlynn Swift considered the messy desk of Stan Warshawski at Lambdatron to be comparable to the offices of the Courier.MC8
