The print edition of tomorrow's Register Citizen will have a different front page than your used to seeing.
Wrapped around the paper will be 10 coupons featuring great discounts from a number of local merchants.
And as always, pick up Sunday's paper for our regular package of manufacturers' coupons.
Your 50 cents tomorrow will more than pay for itself!

LitchfieldCountyMom.Com got some great attention recently on Channel 3, the CBS affiliate in Hartford.
CLICK HERE for the video.

A new feature has been launched at www.litchfieldcountymom.com ... a directory of resources for local moms including classes, camps, daycare centers and more.
CLICK HERE to check it out.
Listings are available at an extremely affordable low monthly rate, and you can upload the text and graphics for your listing yourself online.

The second issue of LitchfieldCountyMom.Com, the magazine, is due to come out on Friday, June 26, with more than 23,000 copies distributed via The Register Citizen, Litchfield County Times, Housatonic (New Milford area) Times and the Thomaston Express, as well as at local newsstands.
To advertise, call Natalie at 860-489-3121, ext. 312.
In the meantime, check out www.litchfieldcountymom.com for DAILY links to local news, features and calendar items of interest to Litchfield County moms.

A limited number of extra copies are available of the special Memorial Day section that appeared in today's Sunday Register Citizen, which listed the names of the nearly 5,000 American soldiers who have died while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can pick up extra copies at The Register Citizen office at 190 Water St. in Torrington, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

If you missed yesterdays’ Register Citizen and the free 68-page glossy-covered local summer events guide magazine, “Every Town Has a Green,” you can pick up a copy for free at The Register Citizen office at 190 Water St. in Torrington between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

I couldn't be more proud of our newsroom for picking up 13 awards last night at the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists annual editorial contest banquet.
Receiving particular recognition was the newspaper's reporting on a sex scandal that rocked the Torrington Police Department, and on revelations the newspaper brought to light about former state Rep. George Wilber paying a woman $100,000 to keep sex abuse allegations quiet.
CLICK HERE to read The Register Citizen's story about the awards (and find some links to the stories that won), and here's a list:
* First Place, Best Investigative Reporting, David Hutter, Torrington police sex scandal.
* First Place, Best Feature Series, Tracy Kennedy, domestic violence series.
* First Place, Best Feature Photo, Mic Nicosia, young golfer.
* First Place, Best Opinion Column, Jordan Fenster, FOI requests.
* Second Place, Best General Reporting Series, David Hutter and Ronald DeRosa, Torrington police sex scandal.
* Second Place, Best Spot News Reporting, Jordan Fenster, state rep sex abuse settlement.
* Second Place, Best Feature Photo, Sonja Zinke, Nutmeg dancers.
* Second Place, Best News Photo, Sonja Zinke, storm damage.
* Second Place, Best General Reporting, Walt Gogolya, mice downs plane.
* Second Place, Best Editorial, Torrington police sex scandal.
* Honorable Mention, Best General Reporting Series, Ronald DeRosa, Walt Gogolya and Jordan Fenster, state rep sex abuse settlement.
* Honorable Mention, Best Spot News Reporting, Tracy Kennedy, man sentenced for killing wife.
* Honorable Mention, Best News Photo, Sonja Zinke, Bush's visit.

And CLICK HERE for the full list of awards.

The Register Citizen once again this year will publish the full list of American soldiers who have died while serving in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
A special 20-page section, with the 4,982 names and articles and photos about Memorial Day, will appear in Sunday's Register Citizen.
Proceeds from the section will be donated to a local nonprofit organization that supports veterans.

OK, critics, Sound Off is good for SOMETHING.
A question in today's Sound Off in the print edition of the newspaper asks if anyone out there knows of a non-toxic solution to an ant problem.
There are lots of good ideas offered so far this morning on the Web comments of Sound Off at registercitizen.com, from vinegar to corn meal to cucumber peels.
CLICK HERE to check it out.

One of the best additions as The Register Citizen has improved itself over the past year has been legendary Litchfield County journalist and author Owen Canfield's front-page Sunday column.
We're pleased to point out - if you hadn't already noticed - that Owen is writing a second column for us now, a notebook-style roundup of local sports observations and news that you don't hear anywhere else.
The column is running on Mondays in The Register Citizen. CLICK HERE to check out today's installment.

Extraordinary need requires broad-based response

We knew it would be a tough year. We just didn’t expect it to be this bad. As co-chairmen of the United Way of Northwest Connecticut’s annual fundraising campaign, Litchfield Bancorp Executive Vice President and COO Tom Villanova and I are faced with one of the most difficult years in recent memory for raising the approximately $1 million that provides crucial support to 24 local social service agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Have you voted yet for your favorite local businesses in The Register Citizen's annual Readers' Choice contest. There's two weeks left.
CLICK HERE to cast your votes.

Web-only legal ads would leave public in the dark

Did you visit your town’s Web site this morning to make sure that local officials weren’t allowing a giant cell phone tower to be built next door to your house? Increasing the property tax rate? Switching to every-other-week trash pickup? Accepting bids on a major municipal project that your small business might have a shot at? Under a proposal before the Legislature, you and everyone else in town will have to do that, unless you have ESP and can anticipate when town officials might be up to something that could affect your neighborhood or be of interest to you as a taxpayer.

Readers who purchase the May 23 issue of The Register Citizen (still only 50 cents!) will get a free 68-page glossy-covered magazine, the 2009 edition of "Every Town Has a Green."
It's a guide to summertime events associated with our communities' historic town greens and beyond, and is organized by town.
Mark your calendar and be sure to pick up a copy of the paper on the newsstand if you are not already a home delivery subscriber.

An urgent request for donations - of any amount - is being made to support the Glenn Winn Campership Fund, which has struggled to meet its fundraising goal this spring. The money is used to send needy and deserving kids from Northwest Connecticut to camp this summer.
CLICK HERE for more information.

Terry Cowgill has a great suggestion on his Northwest Corner blog today on how to protest the Legislature's proposed 5 cent deposit on plastic grocery store bags.

Over the past year, we are pleased to have had the opportunity to expand what The Register Citizen offers to its readers, doubling the amount of space devoted to local news, doubling the space devoted to local opinion, adding local history features, more community news, and feature columnists including Litchfield County journalism legend Owen Canfield and the "Garden Goddess," Gwenythe Harvey of Litchfield.
Over the coming year, we plan to continue that expansion, and in fact, will be adding a LOCAL crossword puzzle and a LOCAL word search 7 days a week, starting this Sunday.
At the same time, and while other daily newspapers in this area are cutting back on sections, columns and local news coverage, we remain the only daily newspaper in Northwest Connecticut still charging only 50 cents at the newsstand. And our home delivery price is less expensive as well.
If it's been a while since you've been a regular reader of the print edition of The Register Citizen, why not give it another shot? CLICK HERE for a list of stores and vending machines that sell The Register Citizen, or CLICK HERE for information on becoming a home delivery subscriber.

We are pleased this coming Sunday to be launching two new puzzles - both with local themes - in The Register Citizen.
In addition to the Los Angeles Times crossword, sudoku and Jumble that we run every day on our TV/Comics pages, readers will now get a LOCAL crossword puzzle and a LOCAL word search, every day, 365 days a year.
The new puzzles will appear each day on the Advice Page next to the Horoscopes and Dear Abby.
Check them out starting this Sunday and please let us know what you think.