To set this up, here’s Lakewood’s Steve Willson’s observations concerning the deminishing patronage of the Crystal Lake Public Library: Orginally, from Lakewood resident Steve Wilson: Crystal Lake Library Annual Statistical Report Crystal Lake Library recently mailed its “Annual Report” to … Continue reading
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From Lakewood resident Steve Wilson: Crystal Lake Library Annual Statistical Report Crystal Lake Library recently mailed its “Annual Report” to all the families in Crystal. It has lots of pictures and graphics showing statistics on usage for the fiscal year … Continue reading
It’s OK if a newspaper trashes a public official. That has happened to Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Andrew Gasser more than a few time in the Northwest Herald. Yet, negative publicity was never levied at his predecessor Bob Miller while … Continue reading
The downward trend of weekday circulation for the Northwest Herald hit 21,440 a month ago. That’s what the USSPI reports. USSPI is a privately held ad agency out of Schaumburg that specializes in national newspaper media buying and placement It released October circulation figures … Continue reading
Looking at the circulation figures of USSPI I found an interesting factoid. Look at the table below: Focus in on the McHenry County line. 110,000 households. The information shows what percentage of the households receive the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune … Continue reading
USSPI, a privately held ad agency out of Schaumburg that specializes in national newspaper media buying and placement, has released February circulation figures for the Northwest Herald and other newspapers in the Chicago metropolitan area. Two numbers are release for the number of Monday … Continue reading
Circulation figures have been released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Northwest Herald is down a bit. Sunday circulation has held relatively stable at more than 34,000 since 2009, while daily circulation had dropped about about 2,000. September … Continue reading
There may be something symbolic here, but I doubt it was intentional. On Wednesday, December 6, 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times announced that the next day, the 70th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, it would start charging for its … Continue reading
Tonight while finishing leaf raking for the fall, I noticed something in a plastic sleeve at the end of our driveway. Unwrapping it, I found that it was a solicitation from the Northwest Herald, along with a copy of the … Continue reading
Every quarter the Audit Bureau of Circulation certifies the circulation of its member newspapers. McHenry County’s dominant daily, the Northwest Herald, has been aggressively courting potential subscribers. Besides phone calls, repeated phone calls, I might add, last Friday a man … Continue reading
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the Northwest Herald reports weekday circulation is 30,950. A year ago, it was 32,934, 1,984 more. The number of Sunday’s papers at the end of September, 2010, was pegged at almost 35,000–34,391 to … Continue reading
It hasn’t been that long ago that a solicitor for the Northwest Herald called. When I discovered that the price was more than the less than a penny a paper for six months that I found at the Crystal Lake … Continue reading
Found this on Halloween and it must be scary to the daily newspaper of record in McHenry County. The Northwest Herald’s weekday circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation for the six months from April through September, 2009, fell … Continue reading