The Tracy Press and you

I asked for this— photos of you and the Tracy Press. Here's the first I've gotten. Behind the paper is blogger Mike Pihlman, father of Our Town book reviewer, Kristen Pihlman.

Shameless marketing or just despair?

(Photo by Alice DeLaurier-O'Neil)

Rarely do we gets photos of photographers, but this is Tracy Press Photo Editor Glenn Moore resting last weekend during a Mount Diablo hike. He calls the photo, "Despair."

I've decided that if anyone sends me a picture of someone wearing a Tracy Press hat or T-shirt or even holding an issue of the Tracy Press, I'll put it in this blog. Send away!

Can you spell these words?

Here's just some of the words our national winner spelled:
• serrefine
• compunctious
• corrigenda
• affiche
• corinne
• rascacio
• schuhplattler
• laquear

Hope for newspapers

The father of the 13-year-old Danville boy, Evan Odorney, who won the national spelling bee contest last week, was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News saying something that should give journalists hope for the future of newspapers.
“One of the tricky things about smart kids like this is they don’t watch a whole lot of television," Mike O'Dorney said. "They read the paper."