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CTV News
2 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
Extra Extra: St. Croix Courier newspaper returns to Charlotte County, N.B.
CHCO-TV News Director Vicki Hogarth is pictured holding a picture of the first edition of the revamped Courier. (Avery MacRae/CTV Atlantic) There a lot of things easier to try and find in 2025 then a newspaper. As news outlets shift their focus to digital platforms, the classic newspaper filled with current affairs, comics and puzzles is becoming a thing of the past. Last year, the St. Croix Courier stopped printing in May after serving residents of southwestern New Brunswick since 1865. CHCO-TV in Saint Andrews purchased the paper in late 2024 with the goal of reviving the iconic paper. At first, the TV station continued writing articles that would go in the paper to be posted on their website. Then, on June 1 the first edition of the new Courier paper was made available for residents of Charlotte County. 'We decided to approach the print edition in a modern way,' says CHCO-TV Director Vicki Hogarth. 'Which is to do a curated monthly edition of the Courier that has some really great think pieces, some columns, some investigative pieces that people will turn to hopefully month-to-month, and then just continue to visit the website for breaking news.' Saint Croix Courier Copies of the first edition of the new Saint Croix Courier are pictured. (Avery MacRae/CTV Atlantic) Hogarth says reviving the paper has been a humbling experience, especially in an age where newspapers are 'drying up' across the country. She says there was a great deal of community interest to see the paper brought back and it's available for residents free of charge for the first year thanks to a $20,000 grant provided by the federal government. 'I think because it wasn't in the community for a year, it's making people appreciate that presence again and having it in their hands,' Hogarth says. 'I heard a lot of great, happy feedback, I've also had a lot of happy tears when I've been able to hand it over to people in person, and a lot of phone calls after they've read the first edition and felt that it speaks to the community again.' Businesses have been reaching out to CHCO to get copies of the Courier for there storefronts. Café Drewhaven co-proprietors Tina Howlett and Shawn Richard look forward to having The Courier available for customers. 'Some people just want to come in and have a cup of coffee and sit by themselves,' Richard says. 'And I think this is going to be a great addition to that.' The two life-long Charlotte County residents have fond memories of the paper from their youth. Both have had their picture in the paper and in the small seaside community, they say there are few things bigger then being featured in the Courier. 'To have a physical copy in your hand to just like bring back all that memory,' says Howlett. 'Like, wow, this is taking me right back to my childhood.' Residents around Saint Andrews are thrilled over the return. 'It's been so long since it's been in print that I really can't remember,' says Mike Craig. 'But, I am looking forward to seeing what's inside.' Café Drewhaven co-proprietors Café Drewhaven co-proprietors Tina Howlett and Shawn Richard are pictured holding copies of the Saint Croix Courier. (Avery MacRae/CTV Atlantic) Saint Andrews resident Charles Creaser says it's a great local paper. 'I know it's appreciated by a lot of people, especially in the communities of Charlotte County.' Hogarth says the paper is community driven and they will listen to residents to serve them to the best of their ability. Hogarth says 3,000 copies of the first edition of the new Courier have been published, a number that will change depending on the demand. New editions of the paper will be available on the first of every month at a wide range of locations in St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, and St. George, N.B. For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
National Post
4 days ago
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- National Post
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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Puzzle solutions for Sunday, May 25, 2025
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New York Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
They're 15. Wait Until You Read Their Newspaper.
On a Saturday morning in May, five hard-nosed reporters filed into an office on the South Fork of Long Island and picked up their red pens. For two hours, they combed through the drafts in front of them. Clunky sentences were tightened. Inelegant adjectives were cut. Powdered doughnut holes were eaten, and mini bags of Cheez-Its, too. This was the final proofreading session for an issue of The Ditch Weekly, a seasonal newspaper about Montauk that is written and edited by locals ages 13 to 17. Its staffers had gathered to put the finishing touches on their first paper of the year, which would be published over Memorial Day weekend. Billy Stern, the paper's 15-year-old top editor, kept tabs on their progress in a planning document on his laptop. According to his color-coding system, reporters had already filed articles about nearby summer camps and the construction of a new hospital on the grounds of a former baseball field. He turned to Teddy Rattray, 15, the paper's most prolific columnist and Billy's friend since Little League, to float ideas for a restaurant review. 'We still haven't done hot dogs,' Teddy said. Billy agreed: Hot dogs should be an editorial priority. The operation has grown slicker since the boys got into the news business last year, as eighth graders at East Hampton Middle School. Billy had been looking for a summer job that was more stimulating than his usual gig squeezing lemons at a food truck. He enlisted Teddy and Teddy's cousin Ellis Rattray to put together an eight-page paper exploring Montauk from a teenager's perspective. 'We were still very young; we had no idea what we were doing,' said Billy, a junior varsity quarterback whose hair was tousled into a cruciferous mop. The trio got an early publicity bump with an article in The East Hampton Star, a stalwart local paper whose owner and editor is Ellis's father, David Rattray. Hyperlocal and proudly anachronistic, The Ditch Weekly in some ways resembled a more wholesome little brother of The Drunken Canal, Dimes Square's onetime paper of record. Here was another unexpected print publication from members of a digital generation, just with more boogie boarding and fewer club drugs. The Ditch team published 10 issues last summer before taking a break to start high school. But on FaceTime calls and in English class, where Billy sits one desk in front of Teddy, they have been plotting their return. For The Ditch Weekly's sophomore summer, its staff has swelled to 20 teenagers. Their goal is to distribute 2,000 copies of the paper a week through Labor Day, funded entirely by ad sales. And they do not want their parents to be involved — except for when they need their parents to drive them places. Perhaps most ambitious of all, they hope to persuade other teenagers to put down their phones and pick up a newspaper. 'When you're on your phone, it gets boring after a while,' said Dylan Centalonza, 14, a new writer for the paper who covers motels with her twin sister, Fallon. 'This is something you have to put work into.' Local News, Local Kids The teenagers who work on The Ditch Weekly are almost all year-round residents of the South Fork of Long Island. They have summer jobs working at golf clubs and jewelry stores; their parents are real estate agents, financial advisers, farm stand owners and restaurateurs. They are well aware of the area's reputation as a part-time playground for the superrich, where Manhattanites sip cocktails poolside and browse the Gucci store. But they are frankly bored by the idea of covering that world and the celebrities who often populate it. 'There's so many that sometimes you just walk right past them,' said Lauren Boyle, 14, adding that practically everyone on staff had bumped into Scarlett Johansson. They would rather assign stories about the version of Montauk and its surroundings that they know best. In interviews between copy-edits, they described quiet winters attending East Hampton High School and summers spent surfing and biking around Montauk Shores, the community of high-end trailer homes that overlooks Ditch Plains Beach. 'Everyone thinks of it as just a rich, touristy place, but there's so much of the past that nobody really knows about,' said Ellis, 15, who wrote an article last year about the history of Montauk's skate park. Working on the paper, he added, 'I learned so much about the town I live in.' Early issues of The Ditch Weekly, which is named for the founders' favorite sandy hangout, contained Teddy's review of dueling pancake houses (headline: 'Battle of the Buttermilk') and Billy's interview with a surf shop owner. Ellis wrote a weekly roundup of mischief from police reports (headline: 'Spring Shenanigans'). 'A Greenwich Village man is facing a felony charge for possession of cocaine after police spotted him in downtown Montauk,' he wrote in a dispatch last July, followed by an account of a spat between two intoxicated people over the ownership of a Rolex. There are also more ambitious offerings. Lauren was especially proud of an article she had just written with Valentina Balducci, 15, about how Montauk business owners stay afloat in the winter offseason. Last year Teddy's older sister, Nettie Rattray, 17, snagged an interview with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan about Gen Z voter turnout that ran on the paper's front page. Their output is impressive enough to invite some questions. 'I get asked a lot, 'Are the kids actually doing it?'' said Dana Stern, Billy's mother, over omelets at a diner in East Hampton. Her attempts to contribute are usually shut down, she said. 'They made it very clear that they don't want adults helping.' Billy does not want the paper to be perceived as a junior spinoff of The East Hampton Star, even if both publications have a Rattray on the masthead. Mr. Rattray, who surely has wisdom to pass down about running a newspaper, wrote in an email that he had intentionally stayed out of Ditch Weekly operations beyond helping Ellis learn how to decipher police reports. Still, the office the teenagers work out of belongs to Dr. Stern, a dermatologist. A staff member on The Star's production team, Matt Charron, taught Billy how to use page layout software last year. And Bess Rattray, Teddy's mother, has offered occasional journalistic advice informed by her career writing and editing for The Star and Vogue. (One suggestion, directed at her son: Don't accept free pancakes from a restaurant you plan to review.) The parents are mostly just grateful that their children are doing something other than sitting inside and playing video games, Ms. Rattray said. 'Last year we were kind of keeping them on schedule, through sheer parental panic,' she said. This year, she added, 'the parental role is really going to be winnowed down to 'driver.'' 'Print Is Dying'? Don't Tell Them That. It is not exactly an obvious moment to break into the newspaper business. 'I hear a lot of, 'Print is dying,'' Ellis said. He and Billy started discussing potential business ideas in the summer of 2023, like selling food on the beach or writing a newsletter. A conversation with Mr. Rattray about his line of work made them consider a paper. Billy, who joined his high school newspaper as a freshman, called a printer to get an idea of production costs and looked up ad rates on The Star's website. 'The numbers worked out,' he said. The founders' parents said they were not covering the paper's expenses, which are supported by advertisements that the teenagers sell to local restaurants, real estate agents and surf shops. (A few ads have been sold to relatives of staff members.) Harry Karoussos, the paper's 13-year-old head of sales, said that he and Billy usually walk into stores with a copy of the paper and a three-page media kit. A degree of transparency is required when he calls business owners to make them aware of advertising opportunities with The Ditch Weekly. 'I have to, like, notify them that I'm a kid,' he said, estimating that he had made at least 40 sales calls this year. Despite industrywide headwinds, The Ditch Weekly is 'very profitable,' said Charlie Stern, the paper's chief financial officer, who at 17 is something of an elder statesman on the staff. He is also Billy's older brother; the two have a standing meeting on Sundays to discuss ad revenue and expenses. Staff writers are paid $50 to $70 an article, and printing costs are around $900 per week. A portion of their profits are donated to A Walk on Water, an organization that facilitates surfing for children with disabilities. The team declined to disclose their profits, but Ms. Rattray admitted that she had been 'astounded' by the paper's financial success. With his cut from last summer, Teddy bought an e-bike. 'Mom, It's Under Control' Back at Ditch headquarters, where the doughnut holes were dwindling, veteran staff members sat with the paper's first two writers from New York City, Annie Singh and Sofia Birchard. The group debated: Would a TikTok account help them reach more teenagers, or would it cheapen the appearance of their reporting? 'It's definitely easier to blow up' on TikTok than on Instagram, where they currently have an account, Valentina said. 'And even if we don't blow up, that's fine,' Lauren responded. 'As long as we have some social media that makes us look fun. We're not, like, boring people, I don't think.' Nearby, Hudson Tanzmann, 15, the paper's head of distribution, said that he and Billy had been trying to set up a more sophisticated delivery program than the current system of leaving stacks of free papers at stores around Montauk, weighed down by painted rocks. The enterprise has turned friends into colleagues, and summer vacation into a cascade of deadlines. Billy is in charge of making sure everything gets done, hence the color-coded planning document. ('Red is, We need it now,' he said.) At times Dr. Stern has worried about her son's stress levels during what should be the most relaxing season of the year. 'Billy's always like, 'Mom, it's under control,'' she said. But if the learning curve is occasionally painful, it is also kind of the point. Grace Dunchick, 15, said she had returned to The Ditch for a second summer because she liked trying something new alongside her friends and having a physical product to show for it. This summer, she plans to photograph beachgoers and write about the trends she observes, in the tradition of the fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. 'I spend a lot of time on social media, so anything to break me away from that,' she said, adding: 'It's really bad. It's like, actually an addiction.' She looked over at her friends, still gathered at the proofreading table, and editorial inspiration struck. 'That would be a cool article.'
Daily Mail
15-05-2025
- Daily Mail
TOM UTLEY: My 275-mile taxi ride in India ended with the driver in tears - but it was a happier ending than David Lammy's
The longest taxi ride I've ever taken, or am ever likely to take, was a 275-mile round trip from New Delhi to the Taj Mahal in Agra and back. This was some 35 years ago, when I worked for another paper, whose then editor had decided that I needed cheering up. So he sent me on an all-expenses-paid trip around the world (those were the days!), with instructions to stop off in India, Hong Kong, Sydney, Los Angeles, Washington and New York, and write one article a week about my impressions of each. Nice work if you can get it. Well, on that morning in New Delhi, I happened to oversleep, and I missed the bus I'd planned to take to Agra. In normal circumstances, I hasten to say, I would never have dreamed of going such a long distance by taxi instead. But when my hotel receptionist told me that the return trip would cost no more than the equivalent in rupees of £30 – or rather less than a London black cab charges today for the eight-mile journey from the Mail's office to my south London home – I thought what the hell. I'd probably never get another opportunity to see the Taj Mahal and, anyway, my employers were unlikely to make a fuss about such a modest bill. There is no room here to describe in full the profoundly moving experience of that taxi ride – my first proper vision of real poverty and the chasm between the First World and the Third. No doubt much has changed in India since then, but I will remember to my dying day how we knew we were approaching a human settlement by the powerful smell of sewage that greeted us from at least a mile away. Then we'd be surrounded by swarms of beggars, tapping on the windows, every time the car slowed to negotiate a gigantic pothole or came to a halt behind a skeletal cow on the road. I remember, too, how the driver used to stop at every filling station on the way to buy another dribble of petrol. This was because, he told me, the weight of a full tank would mean the car would do fewer miles to the gallon and cost him a few rupees more. Mortified And there I sat in the back, with enough money in travellers cheques to feed an entire Indian family for years. But my most vivid memory is of the moment at the end of our trip when I gave my driver a tip of 100 rupees – then worth a measly £3 – which was the only local currency I had left in my wallet. At this, he folded his arms on the steering wheel, sank his head on to them and burst into convulsive sobs. I was mortified, thinking I'd been disgracefully mean. But an old India hand, the local correspondent for the Guardian, told me at lunch the following day I was quite wrong. My driver had been crying tears of joy, he said, because my 100 rupee tip was the amount a Delhi taxi driver would normally expect to clear in at least two full working days of 14 hours each. (He also told me, by the way, that he would never hire a rickshaw, because he was disgusted by the idea that one human being should be carried along by the pedal power of another. I couldn't help thinking that the rickshaw drivers of Delhi, who depended on pedal power for their livelihoods, would probably not thank him for the purity of his liberal conscience). Holiday Anyway, I was reminded of my 275-mile taxi trip yesterday, when I read about the very different experience of Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, when he took a marathon cab-ride of his own. The details are still slightly hazy. But it appears that trouble arose after Mr Lammy decided to nip off with his wife, the artist Nicola Green, for a private holiday at a skiing resort in the French Alps, having accompanied the King on his state visit to Italy last month. For this purpose, he hired a taxi service, through the British Embassy in Paris, to take him at his own expense from the airport at Forli in northeastern Italy all the way to Flaine in Haute-Savoie – a six-and-a-half hour drive of no less than 360 miles, according to my Google Maps. When they eventually arrived, the taxi driver allegedly said the fare had now increased, from the original £717 to £1,305. He is also said to have demanded the extra £588 in cash. Things then appeared to turn ugly. The driver claims that Mr Lammy turned violent, while Ms Green reportedly told police that, when her husband was in the chalet, the cabbie threatened her by revealing the knife he had concealed in the car. He then drove off with their luggage still in his boot. The French police became involved, and in the boot of the taxi were reportedly found two diplomatic passports, two car number-plates, a 'coded briefcase' and the Lammys' luggage, with money missing from Ms Green's bag. The driver has now been sacked by the taxi service and charged with theft. So should we praise Mr Lammy for standing up against a chancer? Or should we look down on him for denying a working man the proper rate for his job? As I say, it's all a bit hazy and I will suspend final judgment until the full facts are tested in a French court on November 3. But two observations spring to mind. One is that our respect for our political class has come to a pretty pass, when so many of us didn't know immediately whom to believe: some random French taxi driver, and suspected thief, or His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (as our passports used to describe his office). But the really interesting question is this: whatever possessed Mr Lammy to embark on such a marathon taxi ride in the first place? After all, he must have known that modern European cabbies don't charge the bargain-basement rates on offer in India 35 years ago. And clearly, he's not so stinking rich that a matter of £588 makes no difference to him – or else why would he kick up that fuss? No. Could his decision to take a cab for the 360-mile trip be explained, I wonder, by his famously dodgy grasp of geography? He was the Celebrity Mastermind contestant, remember, who thought Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution took place in Yugoslavia – a country which had ceased to exist over a decade earlier. He also managed to get into some confusion last December when he described Libya as 'next door' to Syria. Close. The two countries are separated by the best part of a thousand miles. King Charles III and UK Secretary of State David Lammy participate in a 'Clean Power for Growth' roundtable during a visit to the Mattatoio on day three of King Charles III and Queen Camilla's State visit to The Republic of Italy on April 9, 2025 Fired In the same way, did he perhaps fail to realise that Forli and Flaine were in different countries, hundreds of miles apart? 'They're both in Europe, darling, so it can't be more than a short cab-ride.' Oh, well, it's a theory. As for my own marathon journey, I fear my round-the-world trip didn't last long after my taxi ride in India. As soon as I arrived at my second stop in Hong Kong, I had a message from the office, saying my editor had been fired, and I was wanted back in London immediately. One of the charges against my benefactor, I later learned, was his extravagant decision to send Tom Utley round the world at the paper's expense. Ah, well, he earned my undying gratitude for opening my eyes to the suffering of the world's poorest, and the blessed good fortune of being born British.
