The Dundalk Eagle is by far my favorite Newspaper I have ever read and I’m sure I speak for the most of the people who live in Dundalk and surrounding areas and communities. It really gives you that small town feeling when you read it. If you are from Dundalk you would be crazy to not enjoy reading the Dundalk Eagle because all of the information is personal to you and where you live. The paper makes everyone relate or feel involved in at least one article if not more. Most likely if you are from this area you have been in the paper a few times with a name mention or even a picture. It seems like anyone you talk to always have that story, “Well one time I was in the paper for…” This makes people feel connected and important. I know personally my mom has a folder of cut outs of all the times me and my brothers and sisters have been in the eagle. You can get in that thing for anything you do; like scoring one goal against Patapsco in lacrosse your freshman year. Although that’s not really important news it’s important to this community and it’s pretty cool to see you name or picture in the paper.
Other ways the Dundalk Eagle gives us the Small town feeling if you’re from here is by adding fun and entertaining articles or sections geared towards the locals. I love the Eagle on Vacation, where people go on vacation with the Eagle and take pictures with it at their vacation spot. This is very silly and I don’t know if I would every do it but I never skip that section in hopes of seeing someone I know standing in front of a” Welcome to Hawaii” sign holding the Dundalk Eagle. I will never understand what the incentive of doing this is, however, this is not up for me to judge! I also really like the mystery beauty section where if you call in and name the “beauty” you win some sort of prize to a local hair salon. Nine times out of ten I am sure we can all name the “beauty”. Although this may not be fun and entertaining to some people I like to read the local police beat; I found my neighbor in there once for possession of some sort of drug. What other kind of news paper has entertainment like that? You can also find articles about accomplishments of local schools churches, or organizations and any events they may have coming up.
The Eagle publishes not only fun news but important news. This news is especially important to its audience because it’s things that are directly affecting them and are happening right in their communities. The news that is happening around you seems more important than news in other larger papers like the Washington Post or New York times because these things usually aren’t happening right in your community and most likely not effecting a lot of us directly. This is like choosing to read between a robber loose in Carroll County Vs. the new plans to rebuild the VA hospital in Fort Howard. I couldn’t care less about the robber in Carroll County but I would be interested in hearing about the VA hospital in my community. I am not saying the other news papers have nothing valuable to say I just feel like the Dundalk Eagle pertains more to me and the Dundalk community.
