Laying out the PCN is a weekly game of Tetris

Aloha and long time, no see. The past several weeks here at the Phillips County News have been a little hectic and I am sorry to all the fans of this column (both of you...hello again, Mother) for my lack of ink lately.

Each week when we design the Phillips County News we are met with the challenge of getting all the advertisements, submitted stories and photos and then the copy we come up with into weekly pages and as of late, it is has been wild.

It all started with the Black Friday insert a few weeks ago. Since that time, the regular design of the paper has been a little helter skelter. One...