NNA hands out local awards

By: Joe Strupp BOSTON ? Nearly 300 awards were handed out to community and weekly newspapers at the National Newspaper Association's (nna) 114th annual convention and trade show in Boston.
In the nna Better Newspapers Contest, six general-excellence awards were presented. Those winners were the Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa.; The Livingston County Press of Howell, Mich.; the Jackson Hole News of Jackson Hole, Wyo.; the Tigard Tualatin Times of Tigard, Ore.; The West Linn Tidings of Lake Oswego, Ore.; and The Community Current of St. John, Wash.
Also given were the annual James A. Amos Award and the Emma C. McKinney Memorial Award, which went to Albert J. Pinder, publisher of The Herald-Register in Grinnell, Iowa, Margaret Allen, editor emeritus of The Wake Weekly in Wake Forest, N.C., respectively.

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