Letter to the editor
Disappointed reader
To the Editor:
I have always liked the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin — a newspaper that has had the tenacity to stick around since 1871. I once said I didn't want to be the back page of the Marion County Record but perhaps it is worse to be the front page. I resent a masthead telling me I will get Peabody news. I resent Donna Bernhardt telling me I really didn't have sense enough to vote on the casino issue.
I miss the days of Edna Ewert having all the personal news of our citizens but there doesn't seem to be Miss Ewerts out there anymore. I am sure our neighbors at Durham, Lehigh, and other outposts are great people but I don't know them well enough to be interested in their news. The police blotters seem full of tips but we have enough of that in our own police court. I can even forgive the gremlins that usually strike at Peabody Historical Society stories.
— SUSAN MARSHALL and Janet Post give each issue their best shot and I admire that, but until someone wakes up and hears the news that Peabody readers would like Peabody news, I can understand the decline in subscriptions. I suspect if every business in Peabody advertised every week it still would not be enough revenue.
The Wichita Eagle is giving readers a daily "insert" with all kinds of tips — it is far more interesting than the occasional supplement to the Marion area paper. I don't pretend to understand the concept of a "free press" type of paper but the Hillsboro Free Press reaches a large audience.
I think it is time the management of what is now called the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin wakes up and gives this admitted "newspaper junkie" what she and many others really want to read.
Marilyn Jones
Peabody
Editor's note: As previously stated, the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin welcomes individuals who would be interested in reporting social news. The paper also encourages Peabody residents to submit any and all pertinent news.
