The Tree Festival was held at the Cultural Festival yesterday. Directly across the street, the Friends of the Library were having a sale. People came out in droves to look at and purchase various varieties of trees. Organized by the Tree Board, they did an outstanding job even manning their own booth full of information on just about everything green. The music was fabulous and the best I have heard in a long time. Wasn't that singer great?
Margaret Menge, publisher and editor of the new newspaper, The Lake Worth Tribune, was there with a tied stack of 100 newspapers for distribution that just launched its first edition the day before.
This is a non-political festival. The mayor was there and gave a speech. John Szerdi, who is seeking re-election for Commissioner District 4, appeared on the stage. Someone in the audience started giving little jabs about the Lake Worth Tribune's tied stack of newspapers ruffling its pages in the wind. At one point, the stack of 100 was picked up by staff to haul off to the waste disposal. When the city employee was asked about it, he said that he was ordered to do so by Nadine Burns. This charge has been unverified.
As the Cultural Plaza is public property, Ms. Menge had every right to distribute her FREE newspaper that is written about and for Lake Worth and a paper whose mission is to tell the facts. We understand that some businesses have been intimidated for advertising in the Lake Worth Tribune. If you want to pick up your free premier copy of this exciting newspaper, the Lake Worth Library still has some as well as various businesses throughout the city.
And all it takes are a few politicians or activists to curb free speech. As usual, freedom of the press is challenged by some, not only in Paris, France but right here in Lake Worth.
9 comments:
Wow - That's great news~ if the paper was lame they wouldn't bother attacking it!
Sure - Szerdi speaking had NOTHING to do w/giving him a hand up he's gonna need w/2 competitors!
Good - this is good for them & us!
Margaret Menge has published a totally professional and exciting newspaper.
What a relief from the illiterate mouthpiece of the Chamber of Commerce/Commission, with its mindless assertions ,grammatical and spelling errors, and careless use of idioms.
Of course dirty Szerdi, Nadine Burns, and the Mayor want to see it in the garbage.Mike Callahan
I like how she criticized the dead hatian for not knowing how to properly construct a sentence. What a low piece of garbage this women is. Perhaps she can teach Katie and dee about proper grammar. Teaching kids latin? What planet is she from, if they can't learn english. This lady is a train wreck, gonna be interesting watching her snap and freak out.
now I'm calling all the ads and saying thank you for supporting the paper.
First of all, anonymous @9:21, she did not criticize the "dead Haitian." I personally didn't even know he was Haitian. If she said that, I missed it. She inserted a sentence from his social media page.
You like to watch people "crash and burn?" Nice guy. This is freedom of the press. Deal with it.
Did you read the paper she put out? In it on page 2 it states that the man found dead according to his linkin profile spoke creole and French. What does this tell you, that he was German, maybe Finnish? Then in her editorial presides to criticis his lack of proper grammar! The man hasn't had a funeral yet, but she buried his reputation making out as some illiterate punk.
From what I've read so far, she strikes me as someone how is simply stuck up looking down at everyone.
You should really read closer to her editorial. It makes a lot of sense. Sorry you are so offended but then, I have been offended on many occasions by the Lake Worth Herald. Her paper is not politically directed and she is a professional writer, not stuck on herself but stuck on facts.
I heard that the tree board was very surprised that Zerdi spoke as they had voted to keep politics out of it
Margaret recovered her newspapers before they were hauled off
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