Article: Staying the course.(Omaha World-Herald newspaper)

It loses money Oil far-flung circulation, but the Omaha World-Herald is committed to maintaining its role as a statewide newspaper.

Velma Wessling is sitting in the kitchen of her modest home on South Oak Street in Gordon, Nebraska, reading a morning newspaper that was printed in Omaha, more than 500 miles away. She is less than ecstatic.

"Here it is 8:30 a.m., and the paper just got here," she says. "When we had that other carrier, the paper always came by 6:30."

But early or late, the arrival of the Omaha World-Herald in this tiny town in the Nebraska panhandle is a highlight of Wessling's day. "I start at the back and read the whole paper," ...

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