Yes. Meaning we are both.

Technically we are Around Town Publications, LLC. Waldport Tech Services is an "abn" (better known everywhere except in Oregon as a "dba") of Around Town Publications, LLC.

We added the name Waldport Tech Services to solve some confusions about something called "publications" doing all this techy stuff, too. Go figure...

Once a week. 4.3 times a month. 52 times a year.
("Vacation," you say? "Weekends?" You use strange words. What do those mean?)

Every Friday. (In some locations and for very rare holidays it might be the Thursday before. )

We have a niffty office in Waldport. That's 385 Alsea Hwy, Unit 5. (Near the nail salon)

We maintain hours from 10am to 6pm, Tues - Sat. We also offer many services, including (but not limited to) business cards, Computer Services (refurbished computers, repairs, websites, training, consultations, etc), some specialty books and a free book corner, Video Rentals, VHS & DVD players (new and used), Copies / Faxes / Laminations, Custom Coffee Mugs, and much more, all in the same location.

We've been called a newspaper, a flier, a brochure, a throw-away, a "thing" (as in "that thing you print"), and other such descriptives.
Those all work. Technically, though, it's a Community Flier, or an Ad Circular.
In the office, though, we just call it the paper. (Silly us.)

We are not "the Skinny" nor are we affiliated with them or with Pacific Office Solutions in Waldport.
(They closed up approximately 7 Nov 2017.)

We did meet with them prior to our first issue coming out, but we are in no way associated with them, other than in spirit.

The Skinny served the area for over 20 years; those are tough shoes to fill.

Nope. Information Station is someone else altogether. They started about 3 months after we did, also (we think) responding to the vacuum left by the loss of the Skinny.

Sandra Stephens noticed, early in 2018, that the town was very much missing having The Skinny around (our predessor, they had retired a few months before that), and approached a friend about getting it restarted. That friend put together some people and some resources and together we all got it started.

We are sad to say, however, that Sandra passed away on 3 Oct 2023. She was a good person, a writer, a visionary in many ways, and she is missed.

You can find a full article about her in the archives, issue vol 6, num 33 -- 27 Oct 2023.

Stanley Buck is our most popular contributing author. He's a 90-year old rascal with a lot of great stories to tell and a great witt about him. Also a very fine writer. He hangs out at times at the Around Town News' office, and you will sometimes find him here. He'll be pleased to meet you and to introduce himself.

A fellow most worth knowing, and -- as said -- our most popular contributor.

Quite well, actually. So we're told by our customers.
Ok, that's not what you were asking...

Four ways (ok, five):

1. Call us and dictate your classified ad over the phone. 541 563-5409
2. eMail what you want to say, and we'll email back the cost and any other questions we have
3. Snail-mail it to us, using the form printed in each issue (near to the last page)
   (Just keep in mind that snail-mail can take longer than you think to get to us)
4. Go to our website and use the Go to the "place your own classified" link, then follow the bouncing cursor from that point
5. Come by the office (385 Alsea Hwy #5 Waldport) and fill it out right here!

You can pay for your classifieds using cash, check, or credit/debit card, or in bars of gold.
(A small handling fee on Gold Bars may apply.)

We have had -- literally -- hundreds of classified ads submitted successfully through the website.

That said, nevertheless, (and other such "your mileage may vary" phrases), from time to time we get reports that the classified submission form did not work for some one. To date, we have not been able to nail down any cause for this or even duplicate it on any of the several computers we have here. (Diagnosing a periodic bug can be a real challenge.)

If you are caught by this rare situation, then please call us or send your ad by email or snail-mail, or drop on in to give us your ad and to commiserate on the evils of half-thoughtout technology (like the Inet).

Classified ads have one cost schedule, and box-ads or display-ads are quite another thing.

Classifieds have a fixed cost depending on the number of words in the ad. (Used to be by "lines" but that's just so 20th-century, you know?') How long (how many weeks / issues) you wish the ad to run also affects the price, of course.

(Try looking up old classifieds, say from 1770's or 1790's online. Fascinating to see how much things have changed and how much they have not. Printed advertising actually goes back to [at least] 1477, when the first ad was printed shortly after Gutenburg did his thing, and the first classifieds appeared sometime between 1625 and 1655 -- with the first newspapers, in London. So there's a lot of history here, you know?)

Just Click here for more on pricing
Or Here's a downloadable price sheet

We accept cash, check, credit/debit card and deeds to active gold mines, as payment (exact change only on gold mines, please)

Go to the Submit Your Own Classified page to simply type it in and get told how much it costs. How easy is that?

Generally speaking, Tues 5pm is the cut-off for the next Friday's issue. On occasion we can still squeeze something in as late as Wednesday 11am; no guarantee, but you are always welcome to ask.

NOTE: For garage sales or events, your should get your info to us at least two weeks before the event is scheduled! So that your event can get at least a full week's advance notice.

Technically, yes, color box ads will usually cost just a little bit more than all B&W ones.
This is because it costs us more to print color than B&W.
But... it's more accurate to think of it as a discount for B&W only.

For more information on pricing you can see our price schedule or you can call us or drop by the office. We'll be glad to fill you in, and even to negotiate a price for your box ad.
You can also download an advertising info packet here

NOTE: this issue of color applies only to box / display ads, purchased opinion space, and such. Classifieds rarely use color.

Sure we do! And we love them! We just rarely get any.
(Don't y'all have any opinions about things?)

We reserve the right to print them or not, to omit certain phrases, etc. We will not alter what you say, or what we think you are saying (English isn't exactly a precise language, you know?), but we may have to make some editorial changes to how it's being said. In general, we prefer not to change anything.

When you send us a letter, article, joke, etc, try to keep it under 200 words, under 150 is even better. Include your name (first, last initial), and your city. It would be nice to have some contact info, just for us, in case we need to confer with you about your letter.

Send them by snail-mail, email, pony express... just get 'em to us any way you can. We'll pay attention! Honest...

Sure we do. Space allowing, and the subject material being deemed appropriate by the staff, we'll even print it. We reserve the right to make grammatical and clarification changes, but we will not intentionally change the meaning of anything, without your permission.

This is a community publication. Feel free to contribute; we love it!

We write a lot of our articles. Phil's Computer Tips, Ba-DA-Bum by J Edgar Mouse, Dr Ruth Miller's articles, and most of the feature articles and probably other things I've forgotten to mention here, are all original items, produced by this tiny but rather vigorous staff.

Community events, the regular calendar pages and the special announcements (usually in boxes spread through out each issue) are always given to us by the parties sponsoring such things. We are very happy to be able to print these announcements.

We also accept submissions from readers (when we get any! Send More Stuff!), that's articles, fiction, essays, pictures, letters to the editor, and so on. Just keep in mind that we're a small publication, so have limited space. Sometimes the stuff you send, no matter how cool, will have to wait an issue or six till there's room for it or the theme matches the issue.

Oh, much of the humor is original, too. We look for cool pictures (with rights to use) that have great captions already or to which we can create original humor. (As for where J. Edgar Mouse gets his ba-DA-bums, I can't really say; he's very secretive about that.)

Ideas are given to us all over the place. Merchants and community citizens talk to all of us about many things. We take it all in.

Many people in the community help at various times. We thank you all.

Our first issue came out Monday, March 27, 2018. That was after some 2 months of preparation, research, investigation, playing with formats and ideas, articles and topics, color vs. black-and-white, gathering up advertisers... it was a lot of work just to be ready to start assembling the first issue.

Around Town News was originally a B&W publication only. At the start of 2023 we invested in a Big Printer and started printing it in Color. Fun!

Anyway, 27 Mar 2018. Twice-folded 11x17 (tabloid) format. Volume 1, Number 1. 'Twas the Easter edition.

Write, phone, email, start a news-worthy rumor... we'll listen.

• The Contact Us page
• Phone: 541 563-5409
• Email: aroundtownpubs@gmail.com
• Snail-mail: PO Box 1239, Waldport, OR 97394
• Drop by the office in Waldport (385 Alsea Hwy, #5), Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm

Certainly! Quite a variety of computer, office and publishing services.
Below is a short list; or Click here for a current Catalog of what we do

• Audio CD production, including label for disk, inserts in CD jewel case, as desired
• Business cards
• Cassette and reel-to-reel conversion to digital
• Conversion of older movies and photos to newer digital formats, including 8mm and Super-8 film, VHS, VHS-C, 8mm video, 8mm digital, slides, printed photos, and more, transferred to flash drive or disk as you wish
• Computer Repairs
• Computer Tune-Ups / Virus Slaying
• Computer sales -- Laptops & Desktops, professionally refurbished
• Computer Post-Scam clean-ups and repairs'
• Copies -- B&W & Color
• Custom Printed Coffee Mugs
• Disk scratches removed -- CD & DVD disks repolished
• Faxes -- yes, they're still in use!
• Fliers -- design and/or printing
• Free Book Swap corner - Need a book; take a book
• Laminating
• Letterhead design
• Movies! For Rent and for Sale
• Newsletters / Posters / Fliers
• Photo restoration (pretty good in most cases)
• Photo Printing (most standard sizes, up to 2' x 3' poster size)
• Portal Center Press book sales and distribution
• Print jobs, in 8.5x11, 8.5x14, 11x17 and many other sizes
• Report and small document binding
• Scanning of documents, photos, etc
• Sprial and "neat" binding of printed material
• Video Tape, film, photos and such converted to digital, such as your old home movies
• Vinyl lettering to order (but we do not "install" -- you have to do that, though we can give you some pointers)
• Web Mastering
• Websites (as time and workload allow)

We surely do! We have no fewer than eight separate printers in the shop, some of them specialty printers, but the star of the show is our Big Printer shown here (a Xerox C9065), which does the printing of Around Town News and lot's of other things as our customers might need.

We do faxes, scans, laminations, copies...
We can print photos, architectural drawings and posters in all sizes, from 4"x6" up to 24"x36" (Also known as "A1", by draftsmen, architects, builders and the county planning offices)

We can print on coffee mugs (11oz or 24oz), onto iron-on T-shirt transfers (you do the ironing after we print them), on photographic paper, on card stock, on glossy...

On letter-size, on legal, on tabloid (11x17), and all the way up to 24"x36", as already mentioned, on both high quality plain paper and on glossy photo paper. (Make nice party and event posters and displays.)

And, yes, we can even print those pesky Amazon return labels.

Don't have time to wait around? You can email your print job to us with complete instructions (number of copies, type and size of paper, etc) and we'll get it printed and let you know when it's ready to pick up. Simple enough?

So, yes, we do printing.

Are you kidding? That's not a frequently asked question.
As a matter of fact, no one has ever asked that question.

So there...