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A Current Affair comes to Crofton Street
Brady Hall from A Current Affair's 'the Brady Bunch' has come to Crofton Street to interview Harry McLaurin (me) about the crofton street times on Tuesday the 27th of november. There was notice in edition 35 about it and the full report in edition 36. Brady has called the segment, which went to air on Friday 30th November, 'a budding Rupert Murdoch' referring to media owner Rupert Murdoch. It was great fun and the Riverine Herald even came to interview Harry abou The Crofton Street Times. This website is now linked to the ninemsn.com website (channel 9's website) and was publisised when it went to air at 7:00pm. You can watch the clip in video news.
About
The Crofton Street Times is a small street newspaper operating in Crofton Street, Echuca. It has a current circulation of about 150 and is hand delivered or emailed to the residents of Crofton Street and surrounding areas. The editing crew consits of: Harry McLaurin (13) who is editor-in-chief and writes most of the newspaper every week. Rhiannon Morgan (13) who helps with delivery on occasions. Jenai Knight (18) who up until recently wrote the horoscopes every week. Kay Mclaurin who is the pictorial edition, James McLaurin who is in charge of printing the paper and Anna McLaurin (16) who is in charge of all clients. Its first edition was on Saturday 17th of March 2007. In that edition there was only 2 articles on 1 page in black and white, since then it has changed a lot. It now has 3 articles in colour and black and white about up to date news around the street, it has a comic and a horoscope under the news. beside that there is a 'brief news' section, talking about street, local, national and world news in brief. Then there is a puzzle page with crosswords, sudokos, quizzes and riddles. Next to that there is a Television section which talks obviously about TV. On the next page there is an opinion section. In that there is 3 peoples opinion about the latest issues and below that there is a joke, a quote and an odd box. Then finally there is the weather, which has a 2 week weather forecast and sun rise and set times and weather charts as well as Victoria's weather forecast for that day. That completes the newspaper being 8 pages, 10 if you count the local movie guide placed at the middle of it. The crofton Street Times will keep publishing until further notice.
Weather
Every week the Crofton Street Times publishes a 2 week weather forecast and things like sunrise times and moon rise times the river height and 10 towns in Victoria's with their weather on Saturday, but the weather changes dramatically over 2 weeks and if you would like to keep up-to-date with the latest weather click here> www.eldersweather.com.au/local.jsp?lt=aploc&lc=7743&fc=9438 On that website, brought to you by Elders, you will find all the details of Echuca's current weather, including a 3 month history of Echuca's weather.
Moments from the Past
Previous Editions
If you would like to download or have sent any of the previous editions of The Crofton Street Times, then you are welcome to for free by sending you name and email address to the contact form below (If you would like it sent by post then you would have to leave your house address also) and it will arrive shortly. This comes after the fact that it takes up too much bytes to display the previous editions on this website. No other newspaper in the world allows readers to have previous copys for free.
Contact
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