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to a new audience as well. We are planning to continue to grow our multimedia library through audio podcasts, staff-produced videos, video di- aries and photo galleries. We will also use the experience we have in our newsroom to deliver monthly investiga- tive projects using multiple forms of media. Watch for the new News-Sentinel every day online and in the Monday-through- Saturday Journal Gazette. On Saturday, Oct. 7, The News-Sentinel published a 64-page special section com- memorating the history of paper. The special section will include stories about some of the people and events that made their mark on The News-Sentinel through the years. It also includes historic front pages and much more. A PDF of the section is available online at: news-sentinel.com/news/local-news /2017/10/07/commemorative-edition-of-the- news-sentinel/ News-Sentinel Continued from Page 1 From 1872 to 1904 Craw- fordsville had a Sunday pub- lication called the Sunday Star. As of October, Craw- fordsville and Montgomery County will have a Sunday edition once more. The Paper of Montgomery County is proud to announce the expansion of its publica- tion cycle from six days a week to seven days. Begin- ning Oct. 8, The Paper will produce a Sunday edition for all of its online subscribers. But that's not all. With that first Sunday The Paper will publish seven days a week, 365 days a year. "We're excited to be able to bring Montgomery County a newspaper seven days a week," the compa- ny's president of the board of directors Sen. Phil Boots said. "Our commitment has always been to give our home the best local news and this is another step in doing exactly that." Current subscribers to the print edition will continue get- ting their printed paper in their U.S. Mailbox six days a week. Online Edition subscribers will then receive the expand- ed Sunday edition at 4 a.m. Sunday morning in their e- mail inbox. On postal holi- days, Online Edition subscrib- ers will get a special Holiday Edition in their e-mail inboxes at 4 a.m. as well. "We've been working on this for a while," Publisher Tim Timmons said. "Ever since we debuted our daily Online Edition, subscribers have come flocking to it. This was just a natural move, espe- cially when it was clear there was a void in the market." For now, anyone can sign up at no charge for the Online Edition. However, Timmons said that would not last forever. "We're just like any other business," he said. "While we believe strongly in reinvesting in our community we have to have a certain level of re- sources to be able to do so. We think that means giving our customers something they like and value. So to start out with, the Sunday Online Edi- tion will be offered at no ad- ditional charge. If it's as big a hit as we think it will be, we'll set a reasonable subscription price down the road." To that end, the Sunday On- line Edition will offer quite a few more pages than the cur- rent Print Edition. "Our goal is to give our customers something they can sit down with on a Sunday morning, have a cup of coffee and spend some quality time reading," Timmons ex- plained. "Whether they have a tablet, a phone, a laptop or a desktop, we want to offer them a great reading experi- ence." The Sunday Online Edition should average around 25 to 30 pages. There will be sec- tions featuring opinion, sports, entertainment, business and news. Inside the sections readers will find some news- paper staples like letters to the editor, an expanded police blotter, news from the week and more. In addition, there will also be new features like a book page, a travel page, en- tertainment calendar, horo- scopes and, as a result of the successful Challenge program sponsored by The Paper, Athena Sport & Fitness and Franciscan, a page devoted to kids. Timmons also said there would be some new (and old) features. Ask MAC, a weekly column where readers ask questions and the Montgom- ery Answer Connection goes to the source and gets the an- swer, is returning. The Paper is also working with the Indi- ana State Police on a special column about traffic and that will be in the Sunday Online Edition. Like it has done for most of its 13 years, the Craw- fordsville-based multi-me- dia company is staying ahead of its competition through innovation and lis- tening to its customers. Sundays coming to The Paper of Montgomery County Online There will be a renewed effort in telling the stories of Allen County residents. We will attempt to cover the stories that matter to our community. Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust $1,000 Environmental Journalism Award Hoosier State Press Association Foundation The Nina Mason Pulliam Environmental Award was created through a grant by the Pulliam Trust to the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation to recognize Indiana journalists for outstanding reporting on environmental issues. Beginning in 2018, the annual award will be a part of the HSPA Better Newspaper Contest. It will be presented at the Newsroom Seminar where Indiana newspaper journalists are honored each December. The News-Sentinel's commemorative edition and PDF showcases coverage of the paper's 184- year history and features recollections and commentary from the staff. October 2017 Page 7 Staff Reports The Paper of Montgomery County

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