First and foremost, we only print what we can validate. While we often hear additional details, we do not initially add those as they possibly could be considered conjecture that may result in legal ramifications. Those ramifications range from libel or defamatory, up to possible jury tainting. By contrast, if those additional details come out later in legal proceedings, we report them accordingly.
On a related note, we have been questioned about comment moderation on social media and would like to make clear that even though everyone has a First Amendment right to say what they please, Facebook for example, makes the page administrator legally responsible for any legal action brought by others commenting on the page. Since Facebook openly will not state exactly what type of comments are considered a liability we may, and have, opted to remove comments to help insure there are no legal issues.
In rare cases, we have turned off comments altogether and invite readers to share and comment on their own pages. While this may seem extreme, we personally believe that people should be able to comment freely; but Facebook says otherwise and the page administrator(s) have indeed been held accountable in many cases.
Addressing another concern that we 'pick and choose' what to report- first, if we don't know about a news item we obviously don't report it. However, we do spend a considerable amount of time daily to monitor our sources as well as actively search for additional news while making every attempt to report it without political (or other) bias hence 'We report, you decide' is our motto. Every precaution is taken to be as fair and accurate as possible. Even while we strive to live by these rules, like everything, life isn't perfect and there are variations that can lead to confusion or discontent.
Our website and newspaper are free so we don't feel the need to sensationalize a particular story in order to increase our bottom line. In fact, putting out 'bad' news can be depressing but in order to be truly fair, we have to report the good and the bad- otherwise, we'd be picking and choosing.
All said, we are always open to constructive criticism and invite a debate as needed. In the meantime, we wish to thank everyone for supporting our services and we are grateful to be able to serve our wonderful community.
-Sincerely, the Review Crew