How to Place an Obituary

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After your loved one passes away, you have so many contractual details to deal with, like home, finances, burial and funeral arrangements, the last thing you want to think about is placing an obituary in your local paper, but doing so is very important. A published obituary can be used in many cases with insurance companies and creditors to help prove the official death of a loved one, as well as letting all of your neighbors, friends and loved ones know of the passing in an efficient manner.

Although this may seem like an insurmountable task, The Mountain-Ear can help. We have a simple form to help you get started. We can put it all together into a story format for you. The cost to place an obituary is $25. That includes a photo and 750 words. Need an extended obituary? No problem. We can do that too. We can help make the process as simple as possible, for you and your family. To get your forms, more information and to see examples of published obituaries, please email publisher@themountainear.com.

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What an incredible week we have had. I am focused on a bit of gratitude tonight, as I prepare the final pages. It’s almost midnight and I am wrapping up teasers, captions and this column. Then the final changes will come in and I’ll make those. Then, tomorrow I’ll hit send.

The subscriptions are already updated for the week. We have quite a few new subscribers. We are getting more people that switch to online, and more people from out of state that subscribe for the first time. Those are primarily online as well. This week we are sending some extra papers to our Nederland readers. The paper is jam-packed with Nederland news. We don’t normally have this much government coverage in one week, but in the last few weeks there have been a lot of meetings.

With that, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to Christopher Kelley. Christopher is one of our full-time journalists. He has been with us for just over a year and he has truly taken on every aspect of covering Nederland.

As well, we have five stories from Omayra Acevedo this week. Omayra is our other full-time reporter. Omayra covers her normal Discover Colorado column, feature news, community news and quite a bit of northwest Boulder County and Gilpin County. Omayra is taking on some of our content organization and even delivers papers on the north route. HUGE thanks also go out to Omayra this week.

On top of that we have a beautiful UllrGrass feature from Dave Gibson, a Colorado Black History Month article from Sara Sandstrom (who is our full-time copy editor, a journalist and manages our interns), our Life in Nature column by James DeWalt, Black Hawk government by John Scarffe, Extrospectives by Derek Ridgley, Legacy Mining History by Brian Alers, February Night Skies by Frank Sanders, a guest editorial by Dave Hallock, Gilpin school news by Curt Halsted, Poetry by Alexander Joseph, Music of the Mountains and a feature music story by Jamie Lammers, several letters to editor and more. We have all of our regular puzzles and schedules too!

Lynn Hirshman has been editing our government articles (and more) for years and really had a ton to edit this week. She’s an incredible part of our team.

And Cynthia Davis has been working hard on design. We hand the paper back and forth now so we can both work on parts of it. She also co-produces the Podcast each week with Dango Rose.

Next week some of our other amazing staff will contribute once again. And we’ll continue to recognize all of them.

And the staff surprised me with a lovely article about all of our work here together. My entire year has already been incredible and then they write this beautiful tribute.

Maybe you’ve seen this before, but I like to toss it in as a reminder. “The Mountain-Ear is made up of close to 40 contributors per month. Each staff member is one spoke in a very large wheel. Without one spoke, the wheel does not turn effectively. We welcome community journalists and homegrown journalism.”

When assigning content and gathering it, my focus is always to have a well-rounded newspaper. Something everyone will want to pick up and read. Some weeks are more rounded than others. This week is Nederland heavy. Next week may focus more on Gilpin or one of the many communities we cover.

Interested in learning more about what we do? Subscribe (see ad on page 40). Interested in advertising? Give me a call at 303-810-5409 or email me at info@themoutnainear.com for additional information. We’re working on the spring Taste of the Peaks and several special sections that will come out this summer. Next week will be the Best Of edition, recognizing local businesses and people of the Peak to Peak.

I am now scheduling appointments at all three of our locations to meet with advertisers, subscribers and anyone that simply wants to talk about community news and events. Watch the paper for upcoming News & Brews this spring!

The Mountain-Ear is YOUR community newspaper, covering the news you love since 1977.