PALESTINE —
Few industries have evolved more than the newspaper business in the last decade. And today, the Palestine Herald-Press is announcing another change, actually a publication day change and a new product.
Effective August 18 we will publish a Saturday “Weekend Edition” that replaces our traditional Sunday newspaper. The weekend edition will be delivered Saturdays to subscribers by the United States Postal Service and available at all single copy locations by 7 a.m.
There will be no more Sunday morning editions of the Palestine Herald-Press after Aug. 12.
The traditional content of the Sunday paper will appear in the Saturday weekend edition. The new Saturday weekend edition will still contain all the advertising preprints, Parade magazine, comics and Living and Classified sections, plus the main news section you currently receive on Sunday. Photographs and stories of major news occurring over the weekend will be published in our Tuesday edition.
Our weekend edition will also focus on news and information you can use planning your weekend activities.
Further, a new printed product will be delivered to subscribers via mail on Saturdays during football season. Subscribers will receive a separate regional sports edition featuring coverage of area high school football action.
The Herald-Press, in conjunction with the Corsicana Daily Sun, Athens Daily Review and Jacksonville Daily Progress, will provide coverage of high school football games in our area and around the state offering our readers a Saturday product full of scores, photos and local game coverage.
Single copy customers will also find this football edition in their rack and dealer copies of the Saturday weekend edition.
With the move of our Sunday newspaper to Saturday, where mail delivery is possible, the role of the traditional newspaper carrier goes away. Newspaper carriers have long been an institution in the newspaper business.
I have had the great pleasure of knowing many dedicated and conscientious newspaper carriers in my 34 years in the newspaper business. I never envied their role, for they were typically delivering newspapers in the middle of the night on roads replete with hazards of various sorts and through the vagaries of Texas weather.
To our current carrier force and anyone reading this who has thrown a newspaper route, thank you for your years of service. You were the vital link between publisher and reader for decades.
While we regret the demise of the Sunday morning edition, we look forward to publishing an excellent weekend edition for Saturday and know you will enjoy the return of Saturday high school football coverage in our new product.
Thank you for reading the Palestine Herald-Press.
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