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February 2006

THE FOLDING CORNER
Feedback mostly favorable on new look
By Philip Peirce

Phil Peirce

I would like to report, as I promised in the last issue, the formal demise of the “Folding Party.” The preparation of the January issue for mailing was woefully over-staffed by some of our “regulars,” and we made a little extra work by some simple counting verification. All future operations will be as simple as attaching mailing labels for our out-of-town friends, and verifying the correct “count” for the Rural Routes and the Post Office boxes. We’ve worked ourselves out of a job.

However, I’m going to continue this column for a while. It gives me a chance to “vent” sometimes, and at other times just to share.

I’m not sure whether the community is still “out” on their thoughts on the new, improved Citizen, or not. I’ve received quite a few comments, about 90 percent of which are quite favorable. My wife, Linda, doesn’t like it, and some purists liked its “homemade” look with the use of bond paper, etc. But, I will say, that our intentions in the very beginning of this project had been to go to newsprint. We could not, because our volume was far too low to get a price that was feasible. Our volume hasn’t increased all that much, but I think the newsprint printing technology has moved far enough forward to make it worthwhile. That, and a family-run operation that specializes to some degree in our corner of the market, and is willing to take us on as a customer, has combined to provide us with this good fortune.

Thank you, Turley Publications, for helping us to ensure a future for our publication.

Philip Peirce is publisher of the Brookfield Citizen. Send him your comments at brookfieldcitizen@charter.net or P.O. Box 411 Brookfield MA 01506.

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