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<p class="MsoNormal">What are you guys putting in your ads that makes them cost $1400! Ours typically run approximately $150 (though we haven’t yet gotten a bill from Gannet since they bought the Worcester Telegram and Gazette).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Eric Rumsey<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">Economic Development and Planning Department<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">41 Elm Street | Southbridge, MA 01550<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> MassPlanners <massplanners-bounces@masscptc.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Harry LaCortiglia via MassPlanners<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 25, 2022 7:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Charbonneau <jcharbonneau@stoughton-ma.gov><br>
<b>Cc:</b> massplanners@masscptc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Massplanners] Legal Advertisements for Planning Board and ZBA Hearings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">$1400 is the going rate around here...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It's almost as much as a full tank of gas....</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 3/24/2022 8:38 AM, John Charbonneau wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't think going to online legal ads would derogate from the law. Even with print newspapers, people can't get the papers unless they pay for them through delivery or at a store. So I don't see how online newspapers are any different.
Our conservation commission recently had a legal ad cost them $1,400 to be published twice. That is outrageous. The law needs to catch up to what is happening and allow publication in online newspapers to satisfy the legal requirements.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Stoughton, MA 02072<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 8:08 AM Harry LaCortiglia via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This is becoming a topic of concern for my community as well. Public Hearing Notice costs are rising with the near monopoly of the remaining newspapers that still serve the area.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Would it be adverse to law to advertise Notices only in a 100% on-line publication?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Not only would that save money, but it most likely would have the effect of increasing the distribution of the information. Subscriptions for paper versions of newspapers are falling every
day, while more and more folks are reading their news on-line. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It almost leads one to question if the paper versions are truly any longer, "of general circulation".</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to the views of the Planning community!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello Friends and Colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am curious to know if any of you are having an issue with legal advertisements, as many local and regional newspapers
either being consolidated by large corporate media entities, have a completely online presence, or have changed their billing policies. Both in Hudson and in Framingham (where I serve on the PB), the regional newspaper, the MetroWest Daily News is requiring
“pre-payment” for all legal advertisements instead of the traditional third-party billing method. Thankfully in Hudson we have another newspaper that publishes locally, although their deadlines completely changed our submission deadlines for PB ZBA, as they
only publish once a week. In Framingham, the only other local newspaper is 100% online, so Framingham will most likely have to raise fees for application filings to cover the pre-payment in order to ensure the provisions of 40A Section 11 are met. I should
note that legal advertisements are not cheap!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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