It used to be the Franklin Square/Elmont/West Hempstead Herald, but we decided to sharpen our focus to provide deeper coverage of the Franklin Square and Elmont communities. We've inaugurated another new paper this week, the Malverne/West Hempstead Herald, for the same reason, to narrow our concentration and give our readers more information about what's happening in their neighborhoods.
For those of you who are new to the Franklin Square/Elmont Herald, an introduction to what we're all about is in order. Each week we'll report on school news, local sports, crimes and police activity, local taxes, the school districts' budgets and their impact on yours, business and Chamber of Commerce news, civic associations' plans and actions, local government decisions, student achievements, social events, profiles of community newsmakers and features on organizations and individuals that are making a difference in Franklin Square and Elmont. We'll let you know what your county, town and village leaders are doing, and what we think, and what your neighbors think, they ought to be doing.
And we'll do all this on a continuing basis, providing coverage of the issues of concern to the people of Franklin Square and Elmont, participating in those communities by finding out and reporting on all the local news that you care about.
A good community newspaper also serves as a readers' roundtable for the exchange of ideas and opinions on current local issues. Our mission isn't just to present and analyze the news and how it affects you. No newspaper has a monopoly on wisdom, and no one has the only valid perspective on important issues. We're the place in which you, the reader and subscriber, can communicate with your neighbors and let them know your views. We hope you'll see the Franklin Square/Elmont Herald as a weekly forum on the issues and events that make your communities unique.
Beyond our news and opinion pages, you'll find dozens of advertisements each week from your local and nearby businesses, merchants and professionals, letting you know about goods and services available locally. Your commercial community is an essential part of what makes Franklin Square and Elmont such wonderful places to live and work. The Herald believes in supporting local business.
Our West Hempstead subscribers to the Franklin Square/Elmont/West Hempstead Herald will receive the new Malverne/West Hempstead Herald instead. While we believe the more concentrated focus will better serve our readers, we haven't forgotten that some information -- certain school and issue-oriented news, for example -- has an impact on more than one community and beyond the coverage area of any one of our papers. As we do whenever it's appropriate elsewhere in our 15-edition Herald Community Newspapers group, we will share news reports and stories in the Franklin Square/Elmont Herald with the new Malverne/West Hempstead Herald so that readers have enhanced access to all the information that affects their lives.
We hope you enjoy your hometown newspaper, and use it to keep up on everything that's happening with your neighbors and to stay current on all the news that affects you and your family most directly. We also hope you write to tell us what we may have missed, and to let your neighbors know your thoughts on issues that matter most to you.
