Will The Corcoran News Continue? Your Input and Support Are Needed
(4 Apr 07) by Eric Gustafson, CNO Staff

The Corcoran News is the hand-delivered monthly news source on issues and happenings in the Corcoran neighborhood. After 22 years of publication, The News is firmly rooted in our community, but its financial footings are no longer stable. While the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization is committed to sustaining The News in some form, changes are coming. Your neighbors on the CNO Board will decide on the future of The News at their May meeting. If enough residents volunteer to work together on a publishing team, The News might continue as a monthly publication. Otherwise, The Corcoran News may become a quarterly newspaper (4 issues per year) to stay within its shrinking budget.

Volunteers needed
Would you like to help publish The Corcoran News with a team of neighbors?

Years ago, a committee of volunteer residents gathered each month to assemble the newspaper (see accompanying photo from 1986). The team was led by longtime resident Dorothy LaDue, who founded The Corcoran News and served as volunteer editor until her retirement in 2004.

When volunteer support went away, a paid editor was hired, and this scenario has kept The News going for the past several years. Like Dorothy, editors Barb Olson, Carla Kaiser, and Alexis Bell have done a fantastic job while adding their own personal touch to The News. Unfortunately, paying an editor to assemble a monthly publication is no longer viable, given the shrinking budgets of The Corcoran News and the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization.

So, unless a major donor steps forward, The News will likely return to a volunteer-run newspaper or else become a quarterly.

To learn more about volunteering on a publishing team, or to comment on the future of The Corcoran News, please contact me today at 612-724-7457 or eric@corcoranneighborhood.org. Input received by April 16 will be considered by CNO Board members in their decision.