Foothill Leader returns to La Crescenta

Judee Kendall

For the past seven years, the Foothill Leader, along with its sister

newspapers the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader, has been owned by

the Times Mirror Co. All three of these community newspapers are part of

Times Community News, which became a division of The Los Angeles Times

just a year ago. During this time, we have formed a close business

partnership with The Times and have found ways of working together that

benefit our readers and advertisers as well as our newspapers.

Last year, we combined the delivery of the Glendale News-Press and

Burbank Leader with delivery of The Los Angeles Times. Some of our

subscribers in La Crescenta have told us they missed the Leader.

I am happy to inform you that beginning Wednesday, May 10, we will

combine the delivery of the Foothill Leader with The Times. We will

continue to deliver the same number of newspapers each week as we do now.

Some free distribution of the Foothill Leader will continue. However,

this free distribution will be moved periodically.

Here is how this new method of distribution will work for you, our

readers.

* Beginning May 10, the only way you will be guaranteed a copy of the

Foothill Leader is by subscribing to The Los Angeles Times or by

purchasing The Times at a newsstand.

* Residents of La Canada Flintridge, Sunland and Tujunga who subscribe

to The Los Angeles Times will begin receiving the Foothill Leader free

with their L.A. Times each Wednesday and Saturday beginning May 10.

* La Canada Flintridge, Sunland and Tujunga residents who subscribe to

The Los Angeles Times and the Foothill Leader will simply receive both

papers packaged together, delivered by their L.A. Times carrier. You will

receive both papers for the price of The Times.

* If you are a subscriber to the Foothill Leader and do not receive

The Los Angeles Times, we will convert your Leader subscription to a Los

Angeles Times subscription and you will receive the Leader with The Times

for the price of The Times.

* Los Angeles Times subscribers in La Crescenta (ZIP code 91214) are

receiving the Glendale News-Press Monday through Saturday with their Los

Angeles Times. Beginning May 10, the News-Press will be replaced by the

Foothill Leader only on Wednesday and Saturday. La Crescenta residents

will continue to receive the Glendale News-Press with The Times on

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

* News-Press subscribers who do not live in the 91214 ZIP code will not see any change.

By making this change, we hope to give our foothill area readers more

extensive coverage of their communities and our advertisers continuous

reach across the foothill communities. Your Foothill Leader will be a

more complete community newspaper.

It will still contain 100% local news. It will continue to have

Community Forum pages, news about youth sports, city government and local

people and issues.

Of course, you will still be able to turn to the classified

advertising section to find jobs, merchandise and automobiles for sale,

among other things. Your real estate section will continue to be included

Saturday, and throughout the paper the ads will lead you to local

shopping and services.

We see this change as a tremendous advantage to our readers. Now you

can have the news of the community in which you live along with the

broader county, state, national and international news contained in the

Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times.

Please feel free to call or write Editor John Francis, Senior Editor

Michael Hart or myself with any questions or concerns. You may reach us

at 241-4141, ext. 243, 231 and 201, respectively.

Judee Kendall is the publisher of the Glendale News-Press, Foothill

Leader and Burbank Leader.