Wanted: more input, more subscribers

Every week a puzzle is assembled in the office: that week's newspaper.

What do you want to read about in the Bonanza Valley Voice? Or what do you think people you know who don't read the newspaper would like to see in the Bonanza Valley Voice?

Our subscriber base has increased by leaps and bounds in the month of January, and we want to keep that momentum going. It can't happen without the input of the people from Brooten and the surrounding area. We now have 90 new subscribers since the first week of January. It's rather incredible in the newspaper world.

Whether you live in the nearby areas of Padua, Sedan, Elrosa, Grove Lake, Terrace or Sunburg or in the city of Brooten or in the rural areas between those towns, the Bonanza Valley Voice needs to hear from the people of the area about what should be in the newspaper. We desperately depend on getting local news into the paper each week.

What do you like? What don't you like? What's missing that you want to see? What do you want to read more about? What should receive less ink? They are the questions to answer.

We have received input by some paid subscribers that they want to read more news and see less sports. Other pieces of input suggests seeing less news about the city of Brooten and more about the surrounding area. Those are not changes we plan on doing unless it becomes a steady, loud chorus. From my perspective as a publisher, I believe many of our subscribers get the newspaper because of school news and school sports coverage. In fact, in the coming weeks we will make greater efforts to include more school-related news in the newspaper.

It is important that you share your opinion with us! Here's the e-mail: bonanzavalvoice@tds.net.
As always, your opinions will remain confidential unless you write a "Letter to the editor" and ask in writing for it to be published in the newspaper.