Springfield paper drops to weekly publication.Byline: Jack Moran Moran equitable councillor to King Feredach. [Irish Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 728] See : Justice The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield News next month will become a once-weekly publication free to local residents, in a move that the newspaper's publisher hopes will increase circulation and attract more Springfield area advertisers. After announcing in Friday's edition of The Springfield News that the printing presses at the paper soon would shut down, Publisher Theresa Willmann confirmed Friday afternoon that the publication no longer will produce two editions each week, as it has for years. "We think it has the best interest of readers and advertisers in mind," Willmann said of the change. "We want to get into as many households in Springfield as possible, and feel the best value for (advertisers') dollars is to saturate sat·u·rate v. Abbr. sat. 1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. To cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. the market as much as we can." Beginning next month, Spring- field residents will be able to sign up to receive the newspaper free of charge through the mail, while out-of-area readers will continue paying for the publication. The paper also will be available on news racks. Willmann said all of the paper's subscribers will be notified of the change no later than Wednesday afternoon. With the change, the newspaper will come out each Friday. The Springfield News was founded in 1903 and is owned by Lee Enterprises, an Iowa-based company that owns more than 300 daily and weekly newspapers in 23 states. Its holdings include the weekly Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). Sentinel, as well as daily papers in Coos Bay Coos Bay (k  s), city (1990 pop. 15,076), Coos co., SW Oreg., a port of entry on Coos Bay; founded 1854 as Marshfield, inc. 1874, renamed 1944. , Corvallis and
Albany.
After its presses stop, The Springfield News will be printed in Albany, Willmann said. Willmann said that to remain competitive in the commercial printing business, The Springfield News would have had to spend tens of millions of dollars on new equipment. Willmann declined to say how many workers in the paper's pressroom, mailroom mail·room n. A room in which ingoing and outgoing mail is handled for a company or other organization. and composing com·pose v. com·posed, com·pos·ing, com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To make up the constituent parts of; constitute or form: department will be laid off. She said all of the affected employees have been notified of the situation and provided with information about job openings at other publications owned by Lee Enterprises. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, the Springfield News has 4,211 paid subscribers. |
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