Helping small businesses? Don't forget your local newspaper!

Small newspapers are dependent on local advertising. They employ your friends and neighbors, working as journalists and as historians. They promote local events, businesses and nonprofit organizations.  

Remember when your child, your friend, you, made the front page? Or the photos of the big game, the local play, the band concert?

Remember when the newspaper did a story about your fundraiser? How about the publicity given to your service organization? Remember seeing friends or family in the photos of the local parade, craft show or concert?

Remember when you planned that event and the...