Oxnard--I’m always proud to say that I can grow, learn new things and develop my skills as a journalist. SINCE I got into this business wanting to make it to one of those big-time newspapers, I think to be more like those guys, moving forward, I will take the lede of each story and bury it somewhere deep in the story and make each story vague. It may be a bit early, but there is your April...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Mar 25, 2022
Oxnard-- Sometimes, I need to take a step back, look at what I am covering and take advantage of what’s being offered. FOR example, I covered a great event, the Bulky Item Drop Off at the PAL on K Street, and then I got all involved in getting caught up with deliveries and billing. At the end of the day, when I got home, there were some things in the house that I decided to take out to the...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Mar 18, 2022
Oxnard-- So, it’s Friday afternoon, and I have a new service delivering the paper to my office. There were some delays in the delivery process, so I decided to take advantage of the downtime and finish some office work. OKAY, so I spent the day answering phone calls, sending emails, creating invoices, and printing envelopes. I usually start delivering the paper on Friday, but it became evid...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Mar 11, 2022
Oxnard-- My oldest, Travis, called me the other day to say hello, and I told him that I was out in the field delivering papers. HE said, Dad, aren’t you getting a little old to be delivering newspapers? You should be home sitting in your chair, taking it easy, considering how old you are. I reminded him that, while I am 63 years old, I’m not quite ready for sitting around the house complain...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Mar 4, 2022
Oxnard--My life, in a nutshell, is not fancy. That’s okay; I can live with that. My grandparents on my mother’s side of the family came from Jersey City, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, New York, and said things like earl instead of oil. THERE was nothing fancy at home when I grew up, either. My mother kept the house clean, tried, and failed to make me responsible for cleaning my room, made sure t...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Feb 25, 2022
Oxnard-- It’s over, at last. The mask mandate was lifted on Wednesday, February 15, and we can finally go to the store and not wear a “face diaper” to save ourselves from Covid-19. FIRST of all, I think it’s pretty obvious that science is not the driver behind the change in policy. It’s simple; look at the polls leading up to the midterm election, and people are trying to save their butts....
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Feb 18, 2022
Oxnard-- So, we’re heading into the election season, and it’s disappointing to see news outlets continuing the pathetic tradition of having an agenda and giving coverage to people they agree with and telling all the other candidates, sorry, we don’t agree with you, so you’ll get no coverage. I’VE interviewed two candidates with wildly different points of view so far, and I gave them plenty o...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Feb 11, 2022
Oxnard-- You know, some weeks go as smooth as glass, while others go like lumpy gravy on undercooked mashed potatoes. ON the positive side, there were some important stories in the paper this week that, like always, I provided lots of details that keep everyone informed about the things that are happening. There were challenges, of course, that means dealing with things that I can’t control...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Feb 4, 2022
Oxnard-- This week has been interesting, to say the least. You may have noticed that this week’s paper is smaller, thanks to the revenue loss caused by the Omicron variant. THE paper is also glossy this week, thanks to, what I am being told, is a big paper shortage. The printer said that the paper shipment is being held up in Canada, and the only paper they have is glossy paper. Does the gl...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Jan 28, 2022
Oxnard-- Okay, so we’re in the middle of our next public health challenge, which is slowing things down for the Tri-County Sentry again. SINCE there are things that aren’t happening that I would normally be writing about, let’s take a few minutes to talk about other things that I’ll be doing to pass the time. Activity number one is addressing the health challenge head-on with some truth. T...
Chris Frost Tri County Sentry · Jan 21, 2022
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