I am grateful we have a local, non-wire-service newspaper. And I know occasional errors are unavoidable. However, your recent issues have been so very poorly edited and proofed as to undermine your overall credibility. 

Your front page May 23 was a trainwreck: a quick read-through of just that page netted at least 20 errors: typos, grammar and punctuation, layout. The rest of the issue was also riddled with errors. 

The following week even a letter to the editor noting errors was, itself, printed with a lot of typos. 

In addition, I am struck by the quantity of non-news items: gigantic ads for The Leader itself: tide tables (readily found elsewhere), restaurant inspection details, and full-page coloring pictures, for heaven’s sakes.

Padded space fillers, a jumble of run-on sentences, mis-captioned pictures, misspelled words and names: this does more harm than the “good” of getting x number of pages off the press each Wednesday. 

If you don’t have sufficient solid journalism to fill the pages, and you don’t have enough skilled staff on the payroll to produce a paper with only a few typos per issue, I suggest you consider publishing fewer pages, with a focus on quality. 

The paper has a good history, and a readership that would like to continue to value what is published.