As of today (Wednesday, May 27) we have temporarily disabled the Disqus widget on our Website. You can still post comments on stories, however the widget that tells you which stories have the most comments and the most recent comments has had some technical problems. We shut that widget down to avoid confusion.
We’ll put it back [...]
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No doubt many of our readers have gotten those automated phonecalls that claim your car warranty is about to expire. We at The Daily News have received many phonecalls — in fact I just got yet another one today.
Most of these services are fradulent. One way to smoke them out is to ask them which [...]
We use a service called “Disqus” to host reader comments on our Website. Disqus occasionally changes features, usually adding something that improves the service.
However, recently Disqus made a major change in its posting policy that has left many of our posters in the lurch. Comments made by first-time posters are no longer automatically posted, even [...]
We’ve begun adding some “community blogs” to our site. We’re focusing on blogs that are on the lighter side — sports, leisure, hobbies.
With spring finally here, we’d like to tap into two popular pasttimes in greater Newburyport — gardening and fishing. If there’s anone who would be interested in writing about one of these subjects, [...]
A note to our readers: We’ll be adding more local blogs soon to our site. In the coming days we’ll be adding content that has a high quotient of fun/hobby/socializing.
In case you saw a ton of police in Salisbury today…. there was an interesting bust at 4 convenience stores that police say were running illegal video gambling rings. We’ve posted a short story on our “breaking news” section of our Website, and tomorrow’s paper will have a much more detailed account. If the tips that [...]
It’s election time in many of the towns around Newburyport, and that means you’ll be seeing more letters to the editor about the candidates.
We encourage people to write about issues, politics, candidates and politicians. We do, however, restrict who can write. We don’t accept letters from the candidates, their immediate family members or their campaign [...]
Have stories about these enormous pots of federal stimulus money got your head spinning? You’re not alone. The money has been broken down and parceled out into so many subcategories of spending that the tally list is hard to keep up with. Add to that the fact that much of it comes with strings (if not [...]
We’ve been getting a lot of letters and feedback of late on how our local towns spend tax money. A lot of people are asking questions or making comments.
We’ve been putting together a series of stories that looks at how Amesbury and Newburyport spend their money. The two cities are very similar in population and [...]
As of this writing, this is our newest blog at The Daily News. My name is John Macone, I am the editor of the paper. I’d like to use this blog to give our readers a behind-the-scenes look at The Daily News, to answer your questions about the paper, and to talk about suggestions from [...]
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My name is John Macone, I am the editor of the paper. I’d like to use this blog to give our readers a behind-the-scenes look at The Daily News, to answer your questions about the paper, and to talk about suggestions from our readers. (more)
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