Archive for February, 2009

Good job of maintenance

By Gary Spurgeon
Publisher 

In covering the Davis County-Pella Christian Regional Tournament girls’ basketball game, I got my first look in several years at Evans Junior High Gym in Ottumwa.
The gym was once the indoor athletic envy of southeast Iowa. It’s showing its age, probably about 50 years. There have been a lot of basketball games, wrestling [...]

Thieves among us

Those of us in the newspaper business don’t think or talk a lot about having our product stolen nor do we worry about it a lot. In more than 40 years of going to newspaper conventions and seminars, I don’t think I’ve ever been involved in a conversation that concerned shoplifting or petty theft losses.

A blog: Our first attempt

Welcome to our first attempt at a blog. Hopefully, it will get better as time goes by and the subjects will be interesting to at least a few.