Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Washington County News Entry Title: Run of the mill: White's Mill back in working order, plans for community center; Subs of substance: Couple's franchises for Jersey Mike's have staying power; Down the drain: Dairy farmers hurting with loss of school sales Entry Credit: Chelsea Gillenwater Judge Comment: Very well done. Presentation is bog and bold. Both alliterative word choice, and common expressions, used with new meaning, catch both the eye and the ear.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Washington County News Entry Title: Puerto Nuevo restaurant docking in former Harbor; Picking (up) flowers: Florist makes arrangements available for pickup, delivery; Where's the beef?: Business is booming for local beef farmers, processors despite supply chain woes Entry Credit: Chelsea Gillenwater Judge Comment: Impressive presentation: Bold, eye-grabbing main heads, underwritten by smaller explanatory subhead. Works well.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Amherst New Era-Progress Entry Title: Amherst New Era-Progress headlines Entry Credit: Justin Faulconer Judge Comment: Headlines used as they should be to stimulate curiosity in the reader, thus drawing attention to the content. These headlines also compliment the content perfectly with signals to the reader about the what they will find when they start to read.
