Community Newspapers – Hear Them Roar

While most areas of the globe won’t see the new MSN home page until 2010,  you can take a sneak peek here at the changes. The many ugly top-of-the-page hyperlinks are gone, Bing search is prominent, and visitors can now easily access their Facebook friends and Twitter followers.  The question, however, is whether all this time spent on trying to bring Bing to search prominence in the minds of online users has hurt MSN’s success in prospecting for new advertising revenue.

The weekly Enterprise newspaper in Fallbrook Calif., now part of Lee Enterprises’ North County Times,  is haunted, or so goes the Unsolved Mysteries story.

For many years Enterprise employees worked amidst glowing white lights that appeared in one part of the office, quickly vanished and then popped up elsewhere in front of other staff.  A glowing ghost of a little girl haunted the Enterprise for many years as well.

In 1989, Enterprise executives, according to Unsolved Mysteries, hired modern day “ghost busters.”  Experts from San Diego’s Alexander Institute, a non-profit psychic organization, came to investigate the building and ward off the “evil spirits.” Four ghostly creatures of the night were evicted, and all is calm since then.

OR IS IT?