Column: Good Riddance 2020, The Future Of Our Newspaper In 2021
Good Riddance 2020 … The Future Of Our Newspaper In 2021 I know it is commonplace to state how terrible the year 2020 has been. It seems like every other post…
Publisher’s Thoughts
Column: Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind: An Apology To The Swanton Village Council
Poor journalism can be found all around us. This is a subject matter that has consumed my recent columns. I was taught at an early age in the mid 90’s when…
Column: Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind – How Many Week’s Until The Election Is Over?
I received a lot bigger response than I anticipated to my rather large column last week. Sometimes I wonder if people actually take the time to read such pieces when I…
Column: Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind – What A Bunch Of Liberals At The Village Reporter
In my last column I addressed the issue of whether some readers, unfortunately a surprising amount, really want factual based news anymore? Many seem to want headlines and the body of…
Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind – Do Readers Want Factual News?
Do Readers Want Factual News? For those of you who are not on social media, you may be unaware that we are members of The Associate Press and bring forth a…
Column: Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind – Show Compassion – There Is A Time & Place
Show Compassion – There Is A Time And Place By: Forrest R. Church, Publisher THE VILLAGE REPORTER I used to think people were generally compassionate toward one another. It didn’t matter…
Tough Times Ahead, Our Newspaper Game Plan Moving Forward
Like all area businesses, we are monitoring this virus outbreak closely. We are taking steps to ensure the safety of our team, those in our communities in which our staff members…
Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind – WHERE IS MY NEWSPAPER (LAST WEEK’S EDITION) AT???
“Where is our paper at?” A question that we fielded over the phone, email, facebook and in-office likely over two hundred times since late last week. We tried to communicate the…
Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind – Wauseon News Now Covered In “The Village Reporter”
I have viewed more changes in the newspaper industry in my twelve years serving as a Hometown Publisher than changes taking place in hundreds of prior years combined. There has never…
Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind
CROSSED MY MIND … Casey, Landon and I were able to work half days (in this line of work known as a traditional shifts) for a few days last week and…
Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind
CROSSED MY MIND … I had the privilege of recently hearing several State Troopers share their job descriptions and experiences. I do not think we say it enough, thank you to…
Caught My Eye, Crossed My Mind
CAUGHT MY EYE … Fastest growing job field in America – Home Health Care Aide, though the pay is only slightly above minimum wage. The field has taken the lead due…