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Originally Posted by Villages PL
I've been subscribing to the Daily Sun for over 13 years now and I always thought it was necessary to keep informed of events in The Villages. But now I'm not so sure about it. Here's a list of the sections I usually don't read:
Classified
Sports
Home and Garden
Travel
Advertisements
Lifestyle (I can take it or leave it; the health columns often provide incomplete and/or misinformation)
International news: I browse through and only read a few stories.
Local news: Business news is sometimes interesting but mostly not. The op-ed page is okay but certainly not a necessity.
Lately I find that the newspaper takes up a lot of my time; I read through it like it's my duty and/or news addiction.
What do you think The Daily Sun offers that I really need to know?
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This is the part of the post that doesn't seem to make much sense. If you are spending a lot of time reading it, you must be getting something out of it. I probably spend about 15 minutes per day skimming through it. For 15 cents, I find this to be a very good value. I find it to be a nice one-stop source of information at a high level:
- Movie reviews and times
- Highlights of what is on TV that day and upcoming week
- What sports events are on TV
- What are the upcoming acts at the Savannah Center or Katie Bells
- What's going on with house values
- What construction is going on around TV
- Travel ideas
- Garden ideas (although I wish they would filter out the stuff not pertinent to Central Florida
- Restaurant coupons and specials
All this plus whatever other actual articles that I read is a bargain at 15 cents per day. Now, if they were to raise the price of The Sun to what I was paying up north, I may have second thoughts.