TimesNewspapers, which publishes the Washington Times-Reporter, has announced the start-up of a brand new publication, called the Woodford Times.
Beginning May 5, TimesNewspapers will begin delivering the Woodford Times to almost 5,000 households in Germantown Hills, Metamora and Eureka.
The Woodford Times will include local news stories, people features, police and fire reports, church news, obituaries, weddings and sports coverage of Metamora and Eureka high schools. As a true hometown newspaper, the publication will include editorials, letters to the editor and photographs presented in quality, four-color reproduction.
Distribution will be with the Peoria Journal Star, to those households in the 61548 and 61530 ZIP codes which subscribe to the daily newspaper. Another 1,700 households in those ZIP codes will receive the publication via a separate delivery and there will be free rack distribution within the communities served.
TimesNewspapers publisher Linda Smith Brown said the new publication has been developed, to better serve the greater Peoria area with news and information.
“We are excited about the opportunity to provide local, hometown news to an area we are not now serving and to provide it with the quality delivery of the Peoria Journal Star,” Brown said.
Veteran journalists DeWayne Bartels and Tom Batters will be leading the news and sports coverage.
Advertisers will have the choice of advertising in the Woodford Times only, or in combination with any other publications published by TimesNewspapers. Besides the Washington Times-Reporter,
TimesNewspapers also publishes the Morton Times-News, East Peoria Times-Courier and
Chillicothe Times-Bulletin.
For more information about the new Woodford Times, call 686-3106.
