Recent content by boilerpete

I was sports editor here from '91-'08 when the Quayle family sold to Paxton. In the span of about six months, all of our longtime newsroom staff was gone. Circulation has fallen from 5,500 to around 2,500. Deadlines are ridiculous at 5 p.m. Most stories are two days old by the time they run...

This job was filled a couple weeks ago. One of my former interns/stringers when I was the SE here, Austan Kas, got the job. He had been the sports editor over at the Peru Tribune (another Paxton paper in the same Central Indiana Newspapers Group) came over to fill in, and eventually got the...

I am from Huntington (not originally) and I had the gig here for 20 years. I drive to South Bend quite often. It is about 85 miles and a little less than two hours. About 25 miles is 2-lane (Indiana 5), and the rest is four-lane (US-30 and US-31) and fairly quick. ... and I'm not a drooling idiot.

Just some quick notes on this one: • This is a Paxton paper, part of a multi-paper group with its base in nearby Marion, which does the printing for all the group publications. • Deadlines are ridiculously early (5 p.m.), meaning even local sports don't get published the next day. Everything is...