Barbara -- I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble getting the editor interested. How big is the paper?

(We can move this to our personal email if you want. I'm interested in this, but don't know if others want to be involved in a discussion about local journalism. Sometimes when something is so far out of an editor's realm of experience it's hard to get it to penetrate their consciousness. Shouldn't be that way, but it often is. Anyway, I'd be happy to visit with you more about this if you're interested. I get so frustrated by these kinds of stories of people trying unsuccessfully to deal with newspapers. I mean, what the hell are we here for if not to tell the stories of people in our communities???)

WW