As we exited the 5:46 last night, Hawthorne riders were met at the stairs by a fresh-faced young lady handing out equally fresh copies of The Examiner. The Examiner is a weekly paper that launched last fall, covering Pleasantville and Mount Kisco. The paper has since commenced coverage of Chappaqua and, as we saw in the issue the young lady was handing out yesterday, has recently begun covering the Thorns–Thornwood and Hawthorne–as well.

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We think this is excellent. Maybe we just love the smell of newsprint, but in an era when large dailies are sacking people by the hundreds and someone’s actually running a Newspaper Death Watch, some crazy folks are actually expanding their newspaper’s reach.

As publisher Adam Stone said in his introductory editorial:  “We’re here to photograph your triumphs, to chronicle your tragedies, pay tribute to your good deeds, and capture your misdeeds. Newspapers aren’t dead. They’ll only perish if those who run them suffocate them.”