The newspaper project is a joint effort between the Packer’s Bend community local PACERS chapter and Dr. John Shelton, Executive Director of the PACERS Cooperative, a non-profit organization whose objective is, and has been for the past thirty-seven years, to support and strengthen rural schools and communities. Our goal is to publish 3 or 4 paper each year. Our local papers are still being authored by community residents, both current and past, and it is printed by The Monroe Journal, the county’s newspaper.