Posted by The Independent on May 30th, 2008 in Blogs, Features
Welcome to the Grand Island Blogger Network, Jack Sheard!
Jack is the Presentation Editor here at The Independent and beginning June 9th, he is going to begin training to run a half-marathon in August. Jack hasn’t done any serious running since 1998, according to his first entry, but on June 2nd, the paper will begin a [...]
Posted by The Independent on April 17th, 2008 in Blogs, Features
I kinda love how creepily misleading the title of The Independent’s latest blogger’s blog is. “Scenes from the Morgue” is aptly titled in so many ways.
First: it’s creepy and vaguely disturbing in a morbid kind of way. You read that title and think, “Oh man. I’m not clicking on that.” Images of dissected bodies, aniseptic [...]
Posted by The Independent on March 26th, 2008 in Features, Website
In all the hoopla surrounding our site redesign, I completely forgot to point out a new feature we have in our classifieds section - PETS! What’s that you say? Pets aren’t new. What are you talking about?
We’ve partnered with a company called Gadzoo in order to bring you, dear readers, a feature-rich section full of [...]
Posted by The Independent on March 13th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom, Video
We have more blogs!
Our resident columnist, George Ayoub, is trying his hand at a video blog. It’s called A Shoe on the Freeway and it should be a lot of fun to keep up with, so add it to your favorite feedreader! We’re not sure how often he will post a new video for your [...]
Posted by The Independent on February 22nd, 2008 in Blogs, Features
We have two more new blogs to add to our site - TV Babble and Touring with Tonya!
Ok so TV Babble is me, but I’ve been wanting to do a TV blog for a long time and this seemed like the perfect time to get it going Mine’s just getting off the ground, but [...]
Posted by The Independent on February 20th, 2008 in Blogs, Features
The Independent has been very lucky to have award-winning, fantastic photographers on our staff. They are Barrett Stinson, Scott Kingsley and Lane Hickenbottom. Now, two of our photogs, Barrett and Scott*, have started a blog that will highlight their work. Extra photos taken while out on assignment will be included as well as anything these [...]
Posted by The Independent on February 12th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom
There’s a lot going on inside the newsroom today. During the morning budget meeting where we discuss upcoming stories and their various statuses, it came over the scanner that Senior High had to evacuate students due to an electrical fire in an elevator. Off went our esteemed photographer, Barrett to try and catch a good [...]
Posted by The Independent on January 28th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom
Managing editor and awesome cartoonist Bill Dunn has updated his blog with his latest editorial cartoons. Check them out! And Independent copy editor, Corbin Crable is getting the hang of this blogging thang and has updated his Cinemuck blog with his review of Oscar-nominated film “Juno” as well as a little commentary about actor Heath [...]
Posted by The Independent on November 14th, 2007 in Blogs, Features, Special Sections
W00t! Corbin has blogged in his shiny new space called Cinemuck. Corbin is one of our fine Copy Editors and a lover of all things cinematic. He also works for the Mall 7 theater at the Conestoga so he’s right in there when it comes to knowing what’s the what at the movies. Head over [...]
Posted by The Independent on November 13th, 2007 in Features
The Independent has hooked up with social site Twitter. We’ll be using it to post news updates, make announcements or point out special things going on with the paper, so if you happen to Twitter, why not follow us?