The Matthews Record

By:Quinn Albrecht

The Matthews Record is a paper that is published once weekly in Matthews, North Carolina. This does not sound like anything to ground breaking, lots of papers are doing this around the country.

What is special is who this paper is run and published by, two people. Mr. and Mrs. Denk. They have a few part time workers, but for the most part they do all the work.

The paper has a special emphasis on human interest stories around their town. In one instance they wrote a story about how bad of shape some of the sidewalks where in around the town.

The paper prints 11,000 copies and is read by more than 20,00 people. This paper should be an inspiration any future journalist, with a little hard work and determination anything can be done. With a small staff they manage to put out a highly regarded newspaper in their community.