Womack Publishing Co., a Virginia-based community newspaper chain, has signed an agreement to purchase the weekly Littleton Observer, a company press release announced. The company plans to purchase the Observer and merge it with the Lake Gaston Gazette, another weekly newspaper it owns, on New Year's Eve.

You'd think a column on an outgoing mayor that updates readers on what she's doing now and analyzes the reasons she lost would be pretty straightforward. And, at least in Greensboro, you'd be wrong.

Greensboro blogger Joe Guarino, who wields a fearsome virtual pen to the detriment of any conservative or Republican politician who strays beyond his orthodoxy, may have filed the first report on the Greensboro City Council retreat that took place on Dec.

Greensboro Coliseum Director Matt Brown issued a formal correction on Monday to a statement he had made before city council the previous week. Brown acknowledged that he incorrectly stated that the War Memorial Commission had held a formal vote in support of the Aquatic Center, and further admitted to "compound[ing] the error by stating that the vote was unanimous."

If you work in a newsroom or love someone who does, no doubt you've heard the grumblings about layoffs, cutbacks, closures and general shrinkage that has been affecting the media all across the industry. In this week's New York Times, media critic David Carr, himself a former alt-weekly journalist, comes not to bury the old media but to praise the new.

News & Record reporter Joe Killian applied his vocational skills in the most important way - comforting those who love him and count on him, and lending meaning to events that confound understanding - when he gave the eulogy for his grandfather, Kenneth Martin Rose Sr., and his uncle, Kenneth Martin Rose Jr

Moises Mendoza, the reporter at the Houston Chronicle, wants everybody to know that he is not Moises Sandoval Mendoza, the serial killer on Texas' death row. Not only do they share the same name but their dates of birth are 15 days apart, reporter Mendoza writes in the Nov.

Greensboro blogger Ryan Shell, though he failed to survive the Greensboro City Council primary election in his bid for an at-large seat earlier this month, still has his sights set on city doings. He posted a bit of found YouTube video on his campaign website (www.

All three of us in the editorial department of YES! Weekly can recall the gnawing anxiety of the job search in the unstable world of journalism. For me, it took place in 2003 and 2004.

A new research study being released today shows that the great majority of attention toward the economy and it's less-than-graceful plummet was focused on Washington and the banking and auto industries, with less attention aimed towards those who matter: the people using the banks and driving the cars.