A total of 545 students receive their local newspaper through Areawide Media's Newspaper in Education program, an ongoing tradition that local businesses are proud to support and continue. Oct. 13 was the first day of the school year the fifth graders at Salem Elementary began examining their local newspaper in the classroom.
"They love it," said Corey Johnson, fifth grade teacher at Salem Elementary. Nineteen students each in three fifth grade classes at Salem Elementary review their local newspaper, The News, to observe the goings-on in the area and also to use the newspaper as a learning tool.
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