….which is what happens when stuff changes or is considerably updated after each article is written….and unfortunately, this happened to each front page story this month.
Fortunately, not all the typos are in the front page stories. Some are buried inside. Some are really, really minor, but we thought we’d point them out….just in case any confusion might be created by them.
One is something that’s already past: Olney City Council meeting night. That meeting was stated in the paper as to be held April 10; but it was actually last night, April 9 (and boy was it dramatic…wait til the next issue….there really is a lot going on with the city of Olney.)
Another is also a date issue, which was a slip of the finger when typing, not even a mistake in reading someone’s handwriting: In print, we have Tyler McQueen and Helen Marie Westall going for their preliminaries in Lawrence County on April 24. That date is actually April 25; McQueen’s is 10 a.m., Westall’s is 11.
Of course, there’s the mischaracterization (totally unintentional) of Linda Young in the front-page article about her husband, and the latest information we received Sunday night that her condition was “improving” over the weekend. We hear she was removed from the rest of life support last night, after having seizures. She is still hanging on and is being called ”a tough lady” who is still hanging on.
Also, we’d like to point out that in the March-April issue, we’ve been advised that the photo identified in that issue as being Mary Ruth Osman being pulled from the wreckage of her home was NOT Mary Ruth. It was one of the other storm victims, Mrs. Hull or Mrs. Smith; Mary Ruth was actually alive when she was taken from the wreckage of her home, but died later of her injuries, this according to her daughter, the lovely Jennifer Osman. Our guys at the scene had to ask later of those working the rescue effort which storm victim was pictured in that shot, and because so much of the wreckage—and the rescues—looked the same, the shot was misidentified. We apologize for the error.
We haven’t had this kind of typo-crazed issue since December 2010 when we misidentified Dick Trowbridge as Uncle Frank Ladner. But, we always try to fix em when we see em, or when they’re pointed out to us. And please feel free to point them out to us. We WANT to know if we’ve made a mistake, so we can correct it….contrary to the opinion of some, who declare we “lie”…it must be a sad mental state, not to be able to comprehend that something as simple as a date-slipup is a TYPO, not a deliberate thing….yet we deal with people like that frequently. Such is life in the news world.
Okay…print headlines are coming up….sales of this last issue have been phenomenal and we have YOU to thank for it….our apologies that we must keep the price at $3 per copy, and that subscriptions are now $40/$43, but we had to do it to keep up with ever-increasing gas and mail costs. The gas began being a significant problem more than a year ago, and we did what we could to offset it, but now at $4 a gallon, on a business that spends 50 percent of its time on the road….we have no choice. We thank you deeply for abiding with us, and buying the paper despite the increase. We will continue to bring you the best coverage we can of events that mean something to YOU…so you keep telling us what you want to see and hear!!