The Morning Sentinel, founded in 1904, is a newspaper "Serving Northern Kennebec, Waldo, Somerset and Franklin County Communities." Good for them, they really only carry local news. So here's the contents of today's front page:
Top headline, article and photo stretch all the way across the front of the page: "Ripe for the plucking: Madison greenhouse begins selling 1st batch of tomatoes" (small inset photo on right) It's a story about a company that has a 25-acre greenhouse and is staking "its futre on the premise that vine-ripened tomatoes will taste better than those picked early and shipped thousands of miles." Amen to that! And it's good for the local economy.
Above the fold, directly under prior article, 3/4 of the way across the page:"Riding with some of the best: Oakland-based school district bus system nationally recognized" (big photo, 3 columns wide, above the article showing all the bus drivers in a bus) This is a clever photo and a great story. That should be front page news when your bus fleet gets national recognition.
Above the fold, 1/4 of the page, to the right of the prior article: "N.C. sex offender charged with rape." Sad but true, a registered sex offender from North Caroline is charged with raping a local woman Sunday morning. There's a small mug shot of the guy flush in the article.
Bottom third of the page, with table of contents, weather, and 2 news briefs in the middle: to the left: "Commission backs mandated insurance, cigarette tax increase."
And in the lower right hand corner of the front page, my all-time favorite: "Runaway donkey stays a step ahead of owner, police." The article is long enough it's even carried over to page 6. "A donkey that escaped its pen more than a week ago is stubbornly clinging to her freedom. Jenny, a 5 year old, has apparently not traveled far from Mary Gaeta's Higgins Road farm since escaping Jan. 18, but she is still on the lam despite numerous attempts to bring her in. 'We can't catch up with it,' said Chief Steve Emery of the Pittsfield Police Department. Gaeta, owner of Mary's Farms, had the donkey less than a month when she tried to coax the animal from its pen into the barn. Gaeta erected a barricade to guide Jenny, but she managed to slip underneath and ran into the road. 'It's been on the loose ever since,' Emery said. 'It sneaks in every once in a while to get a bite to eat.' Jenny has spent much of her time in a backyard just three houses down the street, Gaeta said.
and the story goes on from there. But isn't that a hoot? :-)
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