Lives enriched in Rogers

Posted: November 25, 2009 at 6 a.m.

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ROGERS — With this edition of The Rogers Hometown News - a newspaper that served as a journal chronicling life in Rogers - the newspaper sadly becomes history.

For nearly 15 years the newspaper has written about living in Rogers - from what’s going on in the schools to what’s happening at the Rogers Adult Wellness Center, from the latest exhibit at the Rogers Historical Commission to the newest addition to the city’s trail system.

Over the years The Rogers Hometown News worked to report on the people of Rogers. From the beginning, the newspaper’s mission was to cover not the huge stories but the small stories. While the huge stories are important, it’s the small stories that give a community its individuality. Those small stories, for the Hometown News writers and photographers and editors, were the important stories - the stories that make the lives of people living in Rogers so much richer.

Sadly, economic conditions forced the paper’s owners to make the difficult decision to stop publishing The Rogers Hometown News.

Subscriptions will be converted to Sunday only home delivery of the Rogers Morning News and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition. The expiration date will remain unchanged.

Subscribers with concerns and questions, and those who would

like a refund on your subscription, should call 1-800-482-1121.

There’s an old, almost forgotten annotation in the newspaper industry, a small way to tell editors that the story had ended.

Sadly, I now end the story of The Rogers Hometown News that way.

- Kent Marts, editor --30--

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