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An Advocate-Messenger employee and a newspaper carrier were injured in separate automobile crashes Wednesday. Regional Advertising Director Brad Toy, who works for The Advocate as well as its sister publications in Kentucky, suffered head and back injuries Wednesday afternoon when a collision in Lexington involving two other vehicles caused a trailer to collide with his stopped vehicle. Newspaper carrier Bonnie Johnson was injured Wednesday when her vehicle was hit from behind in Lincoln County.

A Winchester Sun employee was injured yesterday afternoon when his vehicle was struck by a truck at the intersection of Cleveland and Todds roads in Fayette County. Regional Advertising Manager Brad Toy had to be extricated from his vehicle and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington with injuries to his head, face and back. Toy, who was traveling toward Winchester on Cleveland Road, was sitting at the intersection when a car hauler, traveling the other direction on Cleveland Road, pulled into the path of a car traveling on Todds Road.

Dear Editor, We have subscribed to The Advocate-Messenger for the past several months now and our trial subscription is coming up for renewal. Since we believe that we should support our local newspaper and inform ourselves about the happenings in and around Danville, we will no doubt renew our subscription. However, I would like to take a minute to remind the paper's management that its subscriber base is far wider than just the Fox News/Rush Limbaugh crowd. There are actually quite a few progressives and Democrats who now reside in the Danville area who would enjoy seeing their viewpoint expressed from time to time.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - James M. Schurz, a newsman whose family's nationwide media group includes The Jessamine Journal, died Wednesday morning at home, his family said. He was 76. Schurz, who lived near Williamsport, had lung cancer, said his wife, Mary Ann. Jim Schurz's news career included about 18 years with The Herald-Mail in Hagerstown, Md. He was editor for about 12 years, including about 11 when he also was publisher. In 1986, he became a senior vice president of Schurz Communications Inc. (SCI)

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - James M. Schurz, a newsman whose family's nationwide media group includes The Advocate-Messenger, died Wednesday morning at home, his family said. He was 76. Schurz, who lived near Williamsport, had lung cancer, said his wife, Mary Ann. Jim Schurz's news career included about 18 years with The Herald-Mail in Hagerstown, Md. He was editor for about 12 years, including about 11 when he also was publisher. Click to read a Herald-Mail editorial about Jim Schurz.

The Jessamine Journal welcomed two new members to its family in recent weeks with the addition of Regional Advertising Manager, Mandy Sallee and summer intern Laura Butler. While Sallee is a newcomer to The Journal, she is no stranger to Nicholasville and Jessamine County. The Nicholasville native is a graduate of Jessamine County High School and the University of Kentucky where she majored in journalism. Sallee spent the last seven years working as an advertising account executive for the Lexington Herald-Leader and said she is looking forward to bringing that experience to The Journal.

If you're single and you want to meet someone, the Internet is the place to be. That's the story for one in four single Americans. According to the Pew Research Center, more marriages in today's America stem from online relationships than from any other single type of meeting place. However, most of the online choices out there are either expensive or plagued with fraud. Too help meet the online dating needs of Central Kentuckians, The Jessamine Journal is pleased to announce the launch of www.MeetKentuckySingles.

When a North Carolina weekly newspaper asked for and was given a $50,000 business loan by town aldermen in mid-May, no quotation from free-press defenders and the nation's founders like Madison and Jefferson immediately came to mind. Rather, it was a thought sometimes expressed by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, often a critic of the press: "With the shekels come the shackles. " The loan from the town's business development fund will help the Carrboro Citizen, a two-year old newspaper, expand its business, hire more staff and even expand its circulation beyond its current 6,000 copies - certainly a laudable set of facts in an industry generally seeing at least sharp reductions in all areas.