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Hawarden Independent / Ireton Examiner 926 Avenue F PO Box 31 Hawarden, IA 51023 Phone – 712-551-1051 Fax – 712-551-1057 Email: independent@longlines.com Website: independentexaminer.net Staff Bruce Odson, publisher: leader2@iw.net Mylan Schroeder, general manager: admanmylan@yahoo.com Pam Banta, office manager: independent@longlines.com Kim Fickett, reporter: times1@iw.net Susan Odson, circulation: leader1@iw.net Linda Bingen, graphic designer: advertiser@iw.net Nicole Hoogland, photographer: independent@longlines.com Motto A locally-owned, family newspaper covering the Hawarden and Ireton, Iowa trade area with professional journalism since 1878. Our job is to inform readers and let them make their own judgments. Specifications Publication Day – Thursday Display Ad Deadline – Monday 5 p.m. Classified Ad Deadline – Monday Noon News Article Deadline – Monday Noon Page Size – 6 col. x 14.75 Circulation Circulation Type – Weekly Weekly Circulation – 1,370 Subscription (Annual) Local area includes free e-Edition 1 Year (Sioux and Plymouth counties in Iowa and Union and Lincoln counties in South Dakota) – $33 Out of Area includes free e-Edition 1 Year – $38 e-Edition only 1 Year – $33 – Viewable on a desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. Send subscriptions or address changes to Independent / Examiner, PO Box 31, Hawarden, IA 51023 or email independent@longlines.com Single Copy $1 Advertising The Hawarden Independent / Ireton Examiner offers a wide range of advertising options through its five publications. They are: The Hawarden Independent / Ireton Examiner – A weekly newspaper serving the trade area of Hawarden and Ireton, Iowa with professional journalism since 1878. Our job is to inform readers and let them make their own judgments. Area Wide Ad-Vertiser – A total market coverage publication delivered by mail, serving portions of Sioux and Plymouth counties in Iowa and Union and Lincoln counties in South Dakota. Southeast South Dakota Peach – Supplement to eleven weekly newspapers. Leader-Courier – A Union County, SD county-seat weekly newspaper since 1871. Dakota Dunes / North Sioux City Times – A suburban weekly newspaper in the Sioux City metro area. For more information about ad rates for any of these publications, contact the Independent/Examiner office and ask for general manager Mylan Schroeder email: admanmylan@yahoo.com. Address: 926 Avenue F. Hawarden, IA 51023. News The Hawarden Independent / Ireton Examiner welcomes news of interest to people with ties to the area. News can be submitted in person or by mail at 926 Avenue F. Hawarden, IA 51023, fax: 712-551-1057 or email: independent@longlines.com . Engagements, weddings, birth announcements and anniversaries are printed free of charge, including photos, subject to certain criteria. Local obituaries are also printed free of charge and out-of-area obituaries are printed subject to certain criteria. Call or email Pam Banta for more information: 712-551-1051, independent@longlines.com. The deadline for news items is Monday at noon. Letters to the editor are selected for publication on the basis of pertinent comment and reader interest. Letters are limited to 200 words, must be the original work of the author and must be submitted exclusively to the Hawarden Independent / Ireton Examiner. All letters, including those within the length limit, are edited for style, space, accuracy and civility and are subject to the publisher’s approval. Letters must include the author’s street address as well as daytime and evening telephone numbers. Towns are published; phone numbers and addresses are not. For more information about news items or letters to the editor, contact the Independent / Examiner office and ask for office manager Pam Banta.