Friday's Internet Edition, August 29, 2008.
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| JOYCE HAUK, associate publisher of the Copperas Cove Leader-Press, holds the first-place plaque the newspaper won at the annual Texas Press Association convention last weekend. The Leader-Press took a first place in general excellence and a second in page design. |
The first edition will come out Tuesday, July 1, exactly 10 years to the day the Leader-Press went from publishing twice a week to weekly.
The Leader-Press will also introduce a redesigned newspaper.
The newspaper will be published Tuesday and Friday morning and will be home-delivered in the early afternoon. “The plan is to have the paper waiting there when folks get home from work,” said Hauk.
“We have been asked numerous times if we were going to return to publishing twice a week,” he continued. “This will allow us to keep the news and sports fresh for our readers and allow our advertisers the freedom to reach their customers within a day or two of planned sales or special events.”
The newsstand price will remain at 50 cents. Subscription rates will be $20 for six months or $36 annually, a savings of over 30 percent off the newsstand price.
As for the makeover, the Leader-Press staff was also looking for a way to promote Copperas Cove in the banner of the newspaper, and finally settled upon a new design that did just that. “Our previous flags had the words Copperas Cove set off to one side or below Leader-Press,” said Hauk. “This gives us the ability to put Copperas Cove first above all else.”
There will also be new features in the newspaper, such as TV listings and a color weather forecast. “Our goal remains to give Copperas Cove residents one of the best community newspapers in the state,” said Hauk.