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Paper reports other paper targeted with litter law

Jan 24, 2016 12:04 am
Diane Valden in The Columbia Paper reports about her paper's chief competitor for print news, Columbia-Greene Media, which prints the Register-Star, The Daily Mail, and several other weekly papers. The newspaper company's "Shop & Find" was targeted in Copake with a local anti-littering law recently to prevent the company from throwing their papers on driveways in the town. Lindsay LeBrecht, a Copake Lake resident and real estate agent, and among those who initially complained about the distribution method, said at the January 14 Town Board meeting that the new law was working, and there has been a “definite improvement.” Now Hillsdale is considering a similar law, as copies of the Shop & Find have turned up in driveways there and in Chatham and Valatie, according to reports in The Columbia Paper. Columbia-Greene Media Publisher Mark P. Vinciguerra wrote to the paper that, “I can tell you we have worked with our contractors to correct delivery issues, as well as modifying the publication’s distribution strategy in some areas, including Copake.... We felt confident we could work with residents and correct any delivery issues which were identified to us, which for the most part, I believe we have done.” Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.