By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Sunday is Father’s Day as you all know and by now you may have been thinking about your dad and all he means or meant to you. As a tribute to my father who passed away some time ago, I remember the gifts that he gave to all of …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Wow you might ask. Why the optimism? We feel like things are more uncertain and unsettled than we can ever remember. We are more frustrated and anxious as many of life’s anchors have been pulled from their moorings and we find ourselves drifting, longing to get back to our true north, in control …
GREEN BAY – Multi Media Channels (MMC) has purchased the Seymour-based Advertiser Community News. Going forward, the publication will continue as The Seymour Advertiser. “It’s important for the community to have its own newspaper since it enriches the lives of those residing here,” said MMC CEO Patrick Wood. “We will do everything we can within …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, As you are aware, the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown of the economy have taken an enormous toll on businesses across the state. Newspapers also are a business, and we have seen a huge decline in the advertising revenues that support this newspaper. Many publications in other communities have shut their doors …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, What constitutes value? How is it assigned? In some ways, value is culturally determined. The price of art is shaped by what someone is willing to pay based on its socially agreed upon worth. Imagine the cost of a first edition of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” a literary composition …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Our governmental leaders seem to be confused. Some are emphasizing that we should take precautions against infection with the coronavirus — stay home, keep businesses closed, observe social distancing, use personal protective equipment, etc. Others are emphasizing that nothing is more important than our civil liberties, and the right to go …
By Press Times Staff GREEN BAY – The Press Times received a number of awards from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation during the 2019 Better Newspaper Contest. Originally scheduled in March, the convention to announce the winners of the WNAF Better Newspaper Contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, The Press Times …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, We’ve been quarantined for weeks now, and a definitive end is not yet in sight. Some of us have spouses, live-ins, children and grandchildren all trying to make the best of it every day with the ordinary life we once knew on hiatus. As an adult, it’s difficult to …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, The poet John Donne once wrote —“No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.” Basically he was saying that we are all connected. For years now we have reveled in so many events and gatherings together — sports, concerts, …
By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, Oscar Wilde wrote, in his book “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” that “Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.” Within our current situation, life as we once knew it has effectively been put on pause, and perhaps with it, our sense of place and purpose …
