The Salem News folks recently redesigned the format so it's almost a tabloid -- a long, skinny…read moretabloid. And they added a "screamer" headline on Page 1 (whatever the Big Story of the day is, is placed in the right-hand column with a huge bold-type header). It's okay, but there are only so many ways you can design a newspaper. It should always be easy to handle and page-turn, easy to fold, and easy for the eye to follow. Especially the eyes of older readers, who comprise, I suspect, the majority of Salem News subscribers. It would be nice to have a slightly larger type/font size for news and bulletin board items, but the publisher needs to save ink and paper, so it ain't gonna happen. To the SN's credit, they do make the editorial pages' layout cleaner and easy to follow, but maybe that's so not even one older set of eyes will miss the publisher/corporation's opinion on things. ;-) There is just enough local news (I live in Salem) to make it readable; if I want real "Salem News," I get a copy of the weekly Salem Gazette from one of the freebie boxes around the city. The AP filler news and feature items have all been posted on the Internet news sites days before the SN publishes them, but we know that this is a sign of the times. The best thing about the paper is the Police blotter (I happen to like the humor in the non-serious-crime items, despite what other reviewers might say), Dear Abby and the comics, though I am REALLY PISSED that "For Better Or For Worse" was dumped, unannounced, and replaced by the vapid "Dustin" strip. What the hell is up with that? Intelligent, creative, perceptive, original and genuinely full of real-life humor, Lynn Johnston's strip is far superior to the empty-headed, gag-type, unfunny crap that passes for "comic strips" that increasingly take the place of good stuff. Was "FBOFW" too expensive for the SN? I would like an explanation! Salem News (I still call it the Salem Evening News; old habits...) is a small-town local paper published by a big-ass corporation with headquarters in another state. As there are not many small, family-owned newspapers left, this should be no surprise. But, the reporters and editors are local yokels, and they write about local things, so except perhaps for the editorial influence of a "foreign" owner reaching its corporate fingers out into our little community, at least we have local people writing for local people.

The scam now is no physical paper on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Started during covid...but never went…read moreback. Still paying an outrageous price for this rag.

I have ordered multiple times from far from the tree cider so when we decided we were coming to the…read moreBoston area, I knew I wanted to take some time and come up to actually visit the cider house that I love so much. While this location is located about a 15 minute walk from the main downtown area of Salem, the walk is pretty easy. We got there around 2:30 3 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon and the location was fairly steady. They did have live music as well. We both ordered the honeydew slushy and absolutely loved it. I wish there was a way to be able to ship it to Florida as it was so amazing. I also got a flight so I could try some of the new ciders that I hadn't had before. Or all they were good I think my favorite was the broken heart and the Collab for the dog adoption.

I'll start with the good. The ciders were yummy! We got a flight of 4 for $20. They have a lot of…read morefun flavors, and one for the current zodiac. It seems they rotate them pretty frequently. The bad- the atmosphere. Maybe we got them at a bad time, but it was DEAD inside. The floors and walls were cement, it felt like we were drinking in an unfinished basement. If the place had some more decor and a few more patrons we might have stayed longer. But we drank our flights fast and Ubered out. The bar is a bit far from downtown. It's walkable, but after two days of 20k steps an Uber was in order.

I needed to make a vacation stop and start for my physical paper. NOwhere, I mean NOWHERE, in the…read moreonline pages could I find a phone number or any way to contact anyone at the paper about that. I had to get the phone number from YELP, and I did not even reach a person through that, just a vague promise that somebody MIGHT get back to me if I left a message. I think a local paper is vital to the health of the community, and I am so sad to see the shabby way that customers like me are treated.

I am knocking them down a star because in a recently published Obituary of a close friend's mother…read morenot only were there spelling errors throughout but in the last paragraph they somehow changed her name from Diane to Donna. The paper may be useful but it's sad when whoever is editing does something like this. The fact that the same Obituary was published at an online site for the funeral home and they had it perfect makes me believe that this was the Item's own wrong doing. I will still read it everyday but I am more aware of things like this now that I read that. I just hope this is not something that happens often.

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