Winsted Journal Takes Home Regional Award


 


BOSTON – The Winsted Journal was honored with a second-place award for its editorial pages at the annual New England Press Association (NEPA) conference, held Feb. 8 to 10. Newspapers from throughout New England attended the gathering.

In honoring The Journal’s opinion and viewpoint pages, a NEPA judge said, "A hard-hitting editorial on an emotional local issue gets you into the section. Once you’re involved, you find a good collection of opinions on subjects that really matter. What’s more, it features good layout with lively headlines." The winning issue was published April 13, 2007.

"We are proud to serve the Winsted area with an independent community newspaper," said Winsted Journal Editor Michael Marciano. "And we’re elated to receive an award for our editorial pages, which strive to provide a range of opinions about local, regional and national issues. We share this award with the readers in our community and thank them for their continued support."

The Winsted Journal’s award was one of several commendations brought home by the paper’s parent enterprise, The Lakeville Journal Company.

The Journal’s Compass section, edited by Marsden Epworth, won first place honors for an arts and entertainment section in the weekly category, for the issue of July 26, 2007. The judge noted, "Compass offered comprehensive, well-written coverage/review of local theater, dance, museums, dining, music, art and the movies. I had a good feel for the quality of the performances and the productions... I particularly enjoyed Judith Linscott’s account of her return to the Berkshire Museum (a childhood favorite of hers) as an adult."

The Lakeville Journal won a first-place award in the category of editorial page, which includes the opinion and viewpoint pages. The judge said, "The Lakeville Journal is blessed with... local columnists... whose work would compare favorably with their peers on just about any paper of any size in the country. To find columns of such range, excellence and erudition in a weekly paper is little short of astounding...."

Robert Estabrook, whose column has run in The Lakeville Journal since he and his wife, Mary Lou, purchased the newspaper in 1971, was particularly noted, along with the others whose columns ran in the winning issue of June 28, 2007: Anthony Piel, Barnett D. Laschever and Dick Ahles.

Publisher Janet Manko said, "We’re all proud of The Lakeville Journal Company staff, which proves every week that with talent, ability and commitment, a small, locally owned and independent community weekly newspaper group can produce excellent local journalism."


— The editors

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