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Midway through 1958, Gabriel and Barbara Shakour started publishing a small paper known as The Keene Shopper in an 8x10 room with three desks. The room also happened to be in the basement of their home. Fifty years ago, the “Shopper” was a small publication, containing nothing but advertisements placed by small, local businesses in an effort to improve their profits and educate local consumers. Fifty years later, you hold in your hands the natural evolution of that tiny advertising publication, a business that has grown up around it, and the hard work and dedication of three generations of employees, family, and local business owners. From that one basement room sprang a weekly community newspaper that’s had its own building since the early 1960s, has increased its circulation from 14,000 in 1958 to 42,000 in 2008, and has gone from three employees then to almost 20 employees now. What was (as recently as 20 years ago) painstakingly pasted together by hand is now created, laid out, and sent to the printer on computers. Today, we publish The Monadnock Shopper News, an evolution in the name brought about by the realization that to serve our readers best, we needed to provide them with news of immediate and local importance, not just the ads for products and services from local business owners.

Rain showers in the morning will evolve into a more steady rain in the afternoon. High 69F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch.. Rain showers in the evening becoming a steady light rain overnight. Low around 55F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 60%. The Daily Star, based in Oneonta, is a daily morning newspaper that circulates in a four-county area in central New York state. The Daily Star publishes in print Tuesday through Saturday, with updates daily on its website. It has an audience of 19,000 readers in print and reaches an average of 200,000 monthly users at thedailystar.com . Additionally the Daily Star publishes two weekly newspapers, The Cooperstown Crier and The Weekly Star; a seasonal magazine, Upstate Life; an online entertainment guide, The Scene; and numerous specialty sections throughout the year. The Greater Oneonta area is found in the northwestern section of the Catskill Mountains in the Susquehanna River valley, approximately midway between Albany and Binghamton. Tourism, education and health care are important sectors of the region's economy. People come to the region to enjoy The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and numerous summer baseball camps in a 25-mile radius of Oneonta. Throughout the year visitors also enjoy numerous museums, arts organizations, recreational opportunities and dining across the four-county region. Students earn degrees at Hartwick College, The State University College at Oneonta, and other state universities at Delhi, Cobleskill and Morrisville. One of the region's largest employers, Bassett Healthcare, is based in Cooperstown, and includes the A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta. The Daily Star is owned by CNHI LLC, a parent company for daily, weekly and semi-weekly newspapers published in more than 200 communities throughout the United States. On June 19, 1890, Harry W. Lee published the first edition of what was originally called The Oneonta Star, saying it would be an independent morning newspaper ...