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How This Newspaper Gets to Your Mailbox/Newsstand

  • How This Newspaper Gets to Your Mailbox/Newsstand
    How This Newspaper Gets to Your Mailbox/Newsstand
  • The back half of our office is packed with bundles of newspapers getting prepped for delivery every Monday and Thursday.
    The back half of our office is packed with bundles of newspapers getting prepped for delivery every Monday and Thursday.
  • Left to right, the team that makes sure you get your newspaper twice a week: Regina Keilers, Jo Ann Mueller, Jesse Montez, Lou Ann Adcox, Theresia Karstedt, Jessica Montez, Nicol Krenek, Leigh Ann Bedient, Bobby Bedient and George Kana.
    Left to right, the team that makes sure you get your newspaper twice a week: Regina Keilers, Jo Ann Mueller, Jesse Montez, Lou Ann Adcox, Theresia Karstedt, Jessica Montez, Nicol Krenek, Leigh Ann Bedient, Bobby Bedient and George Kana.
  • Jo Ann Mueller will slap a thousand or so address labels on newspapers every Monday and Thursday, and has been doing so for 21 years.
    Jo Ann Mueller will slap a thousand or so address labels on newspapers every Monday and Thursday, and has been doing so for 21 years.
  • George Kana and Jessica Montez unload a delivery van with 6,000 copies of The Fayette County Record earlier this month. Photos by Jeff Wick
    George Kana and Jessica Montez unload a delivery van with 6,000 copies of The Fayette County Record earlier this month. Photos by Jeff Wick
The process by which this newspaper ends up inside over 5,000 mailboxes every Tuesday and Friday is quite a feat. For 99 years The Fayette County Record has been printed and delivered in different forms and fashions. Nowadays, the newspaper is built on computer and the pages are electronically sent to the Bryan Eagle newspaper Monday mornings at 8 a.m. for the Tuesday edition. And depending on…

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