Thursday, October 28, 2021

Clam Bake is today

 

County Times Editor Richard Crumbacker did his bit as usual at the 44th annual  J. Millard Tawes Crab & Clam Bake, held Oct. 13 in Crisfield, Md. Richard volunteers every year for this must-attend event. It is a see-and-be-seen political institution, equal parts seafood and schmooze.  The event is named for the native Eastern Shoreman, who served as the 54th governor of Maryland. Mr. Tawes died in 1979 and remains the only Marylander to be elected to the three positions of State Treasurer, Comptroller and governor.



Ferrio wins quarterly Starlifter Award


The Delaware State News was proud to honor marketing consultant Joy Ferrio with the company’s quarterly Starlifter Award. Ferrio was surprised with the honor at the Independent Newsmedia Inc. Delmarva Group’s quarterly sales summit on Oct. 12.

The Starlifter Award is presented to a salesperson with the best growth, digital and overall sales and “in recognition for her outstanding sales effort and her ability to raise our clients’ stars even higher.”

Ferrio, who has sales territory across two states, has worked for INI for four years total, over two stints with the company.

“It’s just a wonderful company to work for. If you’re happy at your job, it just makes you want to do better,” she said. “I’m very thankful for … the entire company, our beliefs and my customers. Relationships with the customers are important.”

What’s her secret to serving local advertisers so well? “I just try to be real — and honest — and help their business grow.”

 



Marketing Consultant Joy Ferrio was honored by her boss, Konrad La Prade, Delaware State News vice president of sales and marketing.

 Photo by Laura Walter


A life, a legacy

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Daily news at your fingertips

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Hometown Heroes Okeechobee

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Big Lake Athlete of the week

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Obituaries SCFLife

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Good morning, it's daybreak

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Meet your Scottsdale team

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Your news source between the coasts

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Bay to Bay News

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If you value our journalism

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Reach the right folks

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Readers invited to submit veteran info

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Friday, October 22, 2021

Independent to Give Bonus to Vaccinated Employees

 

Dear INIers,

 Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA will pay a $250 bonus to all current active employees who are fully Covid vaccinated by December 11, 2021 --- including those who are already fully vaccinated.

 While it is too early to know for sure that Covid vaccinations won’t have any negative long-term effects, the recent track record of America’s scientists in developing vaccines is reassuring. And while vaccinated individuals can still become infected, statistics indicate that the unvaccinated are much more likely to require hospitalization and may be nine times more likely to die of the virus.

 The $250 bonuses will be paid in December, based upon the ADP vaccine survey. If you have questions, have had issues with the ADP app or have not yet responded, please email inipayroll@iniusa.org.  

 INI’s culture begins with taking care of each other.  Let’s all continue to do all we can to help keep our co-workers safe and healthy.

Wanda Ford-Waring

Executive Director - Corporate Services

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

November Anniversaries

 

11/2

1 YR

Norman, Lisa Ann

West Valley

11/4

2 YRS

Schultz, Brooke Elizabeth

De State News

11/4

45 YRS

Daisey, James

De Printing

11/5

3 YRS

Wills, Nancy Ann

Okeechobee News

11/5

42 YRS

Jacobs, Michael Lee

Valley Printing

11/6

5 YRS

Riggan, Lori Ann

Valley Printing

11/7

2 YRS

Delaney, Lorelei

E Valley

11/12

3 YRS

Klerk De Reus, Jennifer Marie

Okeechobee

11/13

8 YRS

Kilpatrick, Norma

W Valley

11/15

2 YRS

Plazola Hernandez, Samuel

Valley Printing

11/15

5 YRS

Millner, Nicole Carter

Corp. Acctng

11/16

7 YRS

Lopez-Beltran, Jose Manuel

Valley Printing

11/18

12 YRS

Mankin, Bonnie Marie

De State News

11/20

16 YRS

Michael, Heath

Valley Printing

11/21

43 YRS

Devlin, Deborah

De State News

11/22

1 YR

Webb, Terry D

Valley Printing

11/23

1 YR

Haut, Louis J

De State News

11/26

9 YRS

Dias, Frank C

W Valley

11/27

4 YRS

Luff, Sherry M

De State News

11/28

5 YRS

Dawson, Ashley G

De State News

Monday, October 11, 2021

October Anniversaries

 

10/1

6 YRS

Eckert, Cynthia Lynn

Okeechobee

10/1

9 YRS

Dimaio, Cathy Jo

De State News

10/4

9 YRS

Sullivan, Richard Clark

De Printing

10/7

2 YRS

Maglio, Thomas Robert

De State News

10/9

4 YRS

Barrera, Juan Armando

Valley Printing

10/10

4 YRS

Wee, Rosemary C

W Valley/sun City

10/11

23 YRS

Lewis, Kimberly A

De Printing

10/11

41 YRS

Sussman, Sheryle A

De State News

10/12

7 YRS

Conde, Daniel Roy

Valley Printing

10/12

22 YRS

Williams, Christopher S

W Valley/sun City

10/12

1 YR

Short, Donald Joseph

De State News

10/16

21 YRS

Bugbee, Thomas John

De Printing

10/21

3 YRS

Washington, Alvin

Valley Printing

10/23

20 YRS

Ramirez, Armando

Valley Printing

10/26

1 YR

Perez, Janet M

W Valley/sun City

10/28

1 YR

Myrick, Sheri M

W Valley/sun City

10/31

5 YRS

Satterfield, Clay Aldrich

De Printing

10/31

19 YRS

Eldred, Cynthia Ann

De State News

Editor's One on One show

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Salisbury's homes for the homeless

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America Needs Journalists 6

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America Needs Journalists 7

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America needs journalists 8

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Salisbury Independent ad testimonial

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XIc1vJQt4pcyH-2oE_qRggauNx4e_2kC/view?usp=sharing

Celebrating the place we call home

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QHkA56jCqLal7qWbwIgqnHSe851eBtd0/view?usp=sharing

Online Costume Contest

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Give me a call!

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Lake Okeechobee memorials

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Lake Okeechobee News office

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Big Lake Athlete of the week

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We're moving

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Make money with Classifieds

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Daily news you can trust

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Darel La Prade posted this:

 

This is a perfect example of why I say, Thanks goodness for INI.: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/gannett-local-newspaper-hawk-eye-iowa/619847/

 

Drive our readers to your website

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Help Community Journalism Thrive

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A tribute to our heroes

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Tide Chart needs sponsor

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A link to our obituaries page

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Think Pink pullout section

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Give me a call

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Something spooky

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Athlete of the Week

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Target your market

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Welcome to Logan Anderson




 Logan Anderson has joined the Delaware State News team as the Business Editor.  Logan is no stranger to INI.

Immediate Family:

My household consists of me and my dog, Bentley; my mom, sister, and her family also live in Delaware.  I enjoy playing with my nieces and nephew, spoiling them, giving them sugar, then dropping them back off with their parents. 

 Where are you from? Or Where did you grow up?

I grew up all over.  I was born in Florida but spent my childhood between Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania.  My family has strong ties to the Milford area. 

 Prior employers and very brief job description?

I started in the newspaper business in my mid-twenties at the Milford Chronicle.  I grew up in INI. After the Chronicle, I went on the Leader & State Register, The Sussex Post, then The Harrington Journal.  I moved up to the Delaware State News covering the General Assembly before heading to Cambridge, Md., to lead the Dorchester Banner.  I then went back to the Delaware weeklies as managing editor.

In my late thirties, I set off on a new adventure in California.  There, I worked for Lee Enterprises at the Santa Maria Times and Lompoc Record. I covered government and politics while developing enterprise stories and following breaking news. Between chasing politicians and wildfires, I hosted a regular web series and led many new media projects. 

Life then took me to Florida, where I launched a business helping writers achieve their goals of becoming published authors. 

In my early forties, I am back home in Delaware. I am excited to be DSN and BaytoBayNews.com’s new business editor. I am looking forward to creating great content, meeting my new team members, and reconnecting with my INI friends and family.      

  Hobbies/Interests: 

In my free time, you will find me working on my house near Farmington, out exploring with my dog Bentley, or tinkering in my workshop where I make and repair furniture and craft wire sculpture pieces. 

 

 

Welcome to Denise Namio




We are pleased to welcome Denise Namio to our Arizona region as a customer service specialist. 

Denise and her husband Frank do not have any children.

I originally moved to Arizona from Michigan with my family. I started my career in the Education system and stayed there for seven years and then joineWd the AZ Republic. I worked in the Classified department and sold ad space and then transferred to the Newsroom. I spent 10 years there and enjoyed every minute. I worked in several different areas but ultimately worked as an administrative assistant to the Managing Editor. When Gannett bought the newspaper, I returned to the school district and worked there until retirement.

My husband and I moved to Sun City where we both found part-time jobs after a few years of travelling. I feel with this new opportunity I have truly come full circle.

Hobbies/Interest: Hiking – Swimming - Reading




Sun City mission stories September

 

The Recreation Centers of Sun City Board of Directors dismissed one of their own members during a secret executive session June 25. The action drew a firestorm of reactions from residents of the age-restricted community, only slightly interrupted by the summer recess taken by the board. Independent’s continuing coverage of this issue has generated more community discussion, letters to the editor and mentions and praise of the newspaper’s coverage on the Talk of Sun City website.

 

https://yourvalley.net/sun-city-independent/stories/mcadam-gets-boot-from-rcsc-board-in-sun-city,244047

 

https://www.yourvalley.net/sun-city-independent/stories/residents-want-mcadam-back-on-sun-city-rec-board,256533?

 

https://www.yourvalley.net/sun-city-independent/stories/sun-citys-rcsc-board-president-adjourns-meeting-over-signs,258553?

 

https://www.yourvalley.net/sun-city-independent/stories/sun-city-residents-rise-in-opposition,259526?

 

 

Banner Mission Story for September

 

 

Organizers presented the third Day of Resilience in Cambridge on Sept. 11, an event highlighted by the Dorchester Banner. In recent years, the African-American community has celebrated their history, culture and contributions – with a break last year due to COVID – by focusing on the strength, staying power and creativity of the county’s Black citizens.

Recognizing that most of the population of Cambridge is Black, and that Dorchester will progress more fully in unity, the Banner has not only covered the events, but featured them prominently. Some of the topics are difficult – slavery and abuse are never easy to examine – but we take a hard look at the tough issues, as we cover the joyful expressions of African-American culture.

In fact, with the Groove City Culture Fest and the Day of Unity also taking place over the summer, we went out of our way to show the unique perspective of our Black neighbors. Some of our readers still are not comfortable venturing into one another’s neighborhoods, and it’s probably fair to say that a Banner reporter is rather conspicuous at some events.

Not that there have ever been difficulties. Actually, the hospitality and friendliness are always notable. That spirit of reconciliation is every bit as newsworthy as the conflicts that so often find prominence in the mass media.

 

https://baytobaynews.com/dorchester/stories/day-of-resilience-celebrate-african-american-experience,58391

 

Delaware State News mission stories September

 

September mission report

We are very proud of our 20th anniversary coverage of 9/11. A huge shout out to photographer Marc Clery, who has a CD reader that made it possible for us to access the old photos archived on CDs. He poured through those files so we could have images that illustrated the impact of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and the days and major anniversaries that followed. We used Newsbank to glean sources from the initial coverage and then reinterviewed those people, from firemen to paramedics and police officers, who shared how the day affected them then and 20 years later.

 

Every staffer had a story for the anniversary coverage. Content appeared in print and online, where Brooke created a banner page to collect it and easily grab readers’ attention, from Friday, Sept. 10 to Sunday, Sept. 12. With endless space online, we republished the original stories from 9/11/01, dozens of images through the years and even the pages of the first copy off the press that copy editors 20 years ago marked up with revisions. A shout out to copy editor Beth Skinner – had she not saved and easily located that keepsake, the latter would not have been possible!

 

Andy’s column on Sept. 5 kicked off the enterprise coverage, remembering the newsroom’s response that day and soliciting readers to share recollections of where they were 20 years ago. Those memories were shared verbatim and others were used as part of bylined stories. In addition to print and web, we produced a 16-page special section featuring photos from our archives that was inserted in the Sunday paper. Lee Hoover organized the Opinion section so that it also featured 9/11 viewpoints.

 

Stories also included, with updated photos:

  • A Lewes couple whose firefighter son died in the South Tower and whose front yard is now a recognized 9/11 memorial site where crowds gather every year on 9/11 to remember those killed in the terrorist attacks
  • The  organizers who keep 9/11 memorials going every year with a listing of those for 2021
  • How the Blood Bank, whose awareness grew from 9/11 when people sought to help by donating blood, reacted that day and continues working to save lives
  • Educators tasked with teaching 9/11 to students who weren’t even born 20 years ago
  • Young people in the military and how 9/11 shaped their decision to serve
  • Local places that house artifacts from 9/11
  • Dover International Speedway’s place in history as sports resumed after 9/11
  • Security changes brought by the attacks and still in place today in Delaware
  • Coverage of events around Downstate to honor the anniversary

 

http://baytobaynews.com/9-11-20-years-later/

 

The work was a testament to our commitment to our communities and local journalism. The News Journal’s 9/11 section was an insert carried nationally by Gannett and USA Today, with out-of-state bylines and no localized coverage about Delawareans.

 

I appreciated the reaction from longtime subscriber Dave Skocik, who summed it up nicely for us:

 

Good Sunday morning. Today's edition and its coverage of the 20th anniversary of 9/11/01 is absolutely phenomenal. It will undoubtedly become part of many readers' family files. While my online subscription is the first order of business each day, my file cabinet is filled with collections of military related clips from papers purchased at Wawa. 

 

A big thank you for allowing me to write a last-minute letter for yesterday's paper but especially to Lee Hoover for editing it without changing the flow. She did a wonderful job and would have gotten an A in the writing classes I've taught. ;-) The State News has done an outstanding job bringing new and talented journalists and photogs to its rolls in this challenging time of cutbacks in print media. The DSN's focus on hometown news coverage is in sharp contrast to the upstate newspaper. One of their reporters emailed me Friday afternoon about events planned for Dover. I emailed her a copy of your paper's summary of events and she attended yesterday's event at the Walter L. Fox Post. 

 

She owes you one ...

 

Crisfield-Somerset County Times mission story for September 2021:


 Tattoos continue to grow in popularity and are more acceptable in society, and for a college town it would seem this sort of business would be a welcome.

 In Princess Anne one tattoo artist is ready to open, only to find the municipal code contains a provision that a medical doctor be the tattoo artist or have one on staff.

 It was eye opening for the tattoo artist who is unable to open his business and instead is now lobbying to gain Town Commissioner support to amend its code dating to 2006. Read the story at

https://baytobaynews.com/somerset/stories/medical-doctor-requirement-on-tattoo-shops-holds-back-small-business-owner,57854


Salisbury Independent Mission stories September

 

The National Folk Festival returned this September as a down-sized, in-person event, but still garnered abundant advance interest. Salisbury Independent went beyond its typical event preview coverage and delivered a comprehensive advance that looked at multiple aspects of the festival. The coverage was designed for use in each of the regional papers. It was displayed as a Page 1 package for a Sunday edition of the regional daily. The coverage also doubled as enterprise coverage for Salisbury Independent.

 

https://baytobaynews.com/stories/national-folk-festival-tunes-up-in-salisbury,58025?

Florida Mission Stories September

 

SEPTEMBER FLORIDA MISSION STORIES

Deputy cleared of wrongdoing at high school

An arrest at Okeechobee High School which left a student with a broken leg was a hot story in Okeechobee, as readers debated whether or not the deputy used excessive force. The story attracted a lot of attention online and sparked an increase in online subscriptions.

https://www.southcentralfloridalife.com/okeechobee/stories/deputy-cleared-of-wrong-doing-at-high-school,23409?

Northern storage project moves forward with ASRs

Water quality and quantity are critical issues in South Florida as communities. The demand for water increases continually as 1,000 people move to Florida daily. A project north of Lake Okeechobee will store billions of gallons of water, but one part of the project – a 13,000 acre water retention feature -- drew opposition from landowners, local government and the Seminole Tribe. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reworked the project to go forward without the controversial feature, preserving most of the water storage at a fraction of the original cost estimate.

https://www.southcentralfloridalife.com/stories/northern-storage-project-moves-forward-with-asrs-and-wetlands-restoration,23007?

Pahokee City Commission meetings go wild

While most city commission meetings are routine and sometimes boring, the Pahokee City Commission is unpredictable and sometimes volatile. It’s not unusual for members of the audience and the commissioners to get into screaming matches, or for the commissioners to accuse each other of dishonesty. The Lake Okeechobee News continued coverage of the commission meetings puts the events into perspective, reporting what happened (although direct quotes are sometimes not possible due to some of the language used). We also include links to the meeting videos, inviting the readers to watch the meetings for themselves.

https://www.southcentralfloridalife.com/stories/city-of-pahokee-to-pursue-legal-action-against-former-city-manager-chandler-williamson,22652?

https://www.southcentralfloridalife.com/belle-glade/stories/pahokee-hires-thompson-as-city-manager,23766?