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Cheers & Jeers
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Submit Your Cheer or Jeer Below...Simply type, submit, get printed

Cheers & Jeers FAQ

1. What is Cheers & Jeers?

We consider Cheers & Jeers a simplified "Letter to the Editor" or snippet opinion piece. If you have a thank you, shout out, complaint, question, comment, or message you'd like to pose in the form of a cheer or jeer, submit it and we'll print it.

Cheer = encouragement, approval, praise
Jeer = scoff, disapprove, jab

2. Are there any rules?

Fortunately and unfortunately, yes!

3. What are the rules?

- MUST INCLUDE: Full name, Address, Daytime Phone (We will only print your first and last name along with your city)

- Please limit your message to about 50 words

- There are certain subject restrictions

- Editor reserves the right to edit your item (that's you Mr. Potty Mouth or Rambling Shout Out Teen)

4. Can you give an example of a cheer or jeer?

- Cheers to Jane Doe for helping me cross the street the other day. What a great citizen!

- Jeers to no volunteers showing up to clean-up our city! Come support your local organization!

5. Will you print every Cheer or Jeer received?

- The simple answer is no. No if we have a large volume of submissions or "uneditable" messages. We will, however, do our duty to print as many quality messages as possible. We will hold on to messages for a month for rollover from week to week.

6. Where and how often do you print the Cheers and Jeers?

- We exclusively print Cheers and Jeers in the newspaper starting in August 2010. We print Cheers and Jeers in every published edition of the Chronicle & DV! Sorry web readers, but for a solution click here.

7. What's Cheers or Jeers worthy?

- First, let's talk about what's not cheers or jeers worthy: Birthday wishes, personal attacks, mushy love messages, slanderous accusations...you get the picture.

- Second, what is cheers or jeers worthy: A local sports team going to state, questionable spending of taxpayer money, a citizen going the extra mile without seeking praise, people abandoning poor animals in the country, thanking the sweet Lord for rain! You've got it...now submit!

Letters to the Editor:
Letter policy
Submit via e-mail: mail@colemannews.com
Mail: Box 840, Coleman, TX 76834
Fax: 325-625-4129
Verification: Letters must include printed full name, address and day and home phone numbers for author verification purposes only.
Content: Must be the author’s original words. Suggested length is 200 words or less. Letters may be edited for space, clarity, civility and accuracy.
Questions: Call 325-625-4128 or mail@colemannews.com

Letters to the Editor are published exclusively in the newspaper.