Behind the Headlines

By Paula Wethington / paula@monroenews.com

Someone at my former workplace always put the Wednesday before Thanksgiving edition on a scale to see how much that monster of a paper weighed. I’ve been asking about this at The Monroe Evening News every year since moving to Monroe. Seems nobody has thought of researching this bit of trivia!

So, after the paper landed with a very loud thud on my porch, I took it to the bathroom scale and weighed myself with and without today’s paper:

That’s 3.5 pounds of newspaper the carriers just delivered to your home or news racks.

I’ve been talking at Monroe on a budget about the sales and deals you can find while shopping in Monroe County. Stay tuned, it will take some time to compile today’s report.