Thursday, August 9, 2012

New newspaper coming for the town of Woodbridge Labor Day weekend

Woodbridge is getting a new newspaper that will be delivered every three weeks. The publisher of the Orange Town News, Rocco Salperto and editor Marlene Silverstein appeared before the towns Board of Selectmen last evening and discussed their venture into Woodbridge. Salperto, who did all the talking, said content in the publication would be exclusive to the town. "It will be more exclusive than the regional paper," Salperto said. The Orange Town News has been in existence for the past seven years. "With the last few months (newspapers) have been shuffling and it has left some voids," Salperto said. He was most likely referring to the fact that the Amity Observer has gone to an online version only and was using its former editor Betina Thiel as a correspondent. Salperto told the board that Thiel along with Melissa Nicafero and Laura Fantarella would be the correspondents covering the town. Nicafero recently joined the Orange Town News and Fantarella has been writing for the publication for a few years now. Nicafero had written for Bethwood Patch. When asked by a board member of the paper was also online and would it have regular updates Salperto said the only time updates would appear are if there was a major emergency. He said the paper, as printed, is downloadable. Salperto said he plans the first issue to be in mailboxes Labor day weekend.

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