Press releases should be typed, with basic information about an event, performance dates and times, location, ticket prices and a public information number. Two to three weeks before the event, send information to:

Pam Kragen, Arts and Features Editor
North County Times
933 W. San Marcos Blvd, Bldg. A
San Marcos, CA 92069
Phone: 760/761-4400
e-mail: preview@nctimes.com

We welcome information about company promotions, seminars, club or group meetings with speakers, conferences, trade shows, or other events of interest to the business community. Meetings must be open to the general public.

Business Editor
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/740-4000
Fax: 760/745-3769
e-mail: business@nctimes.com

To submit your notice, e-mail us or see the Web forms at Web Services.

Celebrations
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/739-6614
Fax: 760/901-4121
e-mail: celebrations@nctimes.com

If your club, organization or school plans an event that is open to the public, send a news release 10-14 days in advance. If your group or school recently held an event or recognized a member, send a photo. Include the names of everyone in the photo, naming them from left to right as you view the photo, and please name the person who took the photo. Also, please include a contact name and phone number. Digital photos must be in jpeg format at 200-plus dpi.

Pat Storey
North County Times
1722 S. Coast Hwy.,
Oceanside, CA 92054
Phone: 760/901-4089
Escondido Fax: 760/745-3769
Oceanside Fax: 760/757-2072
e-mail: commnews@nctimes.com

We publish community sports information every Thursday and Sunday. Sports results should be provided by the league chairman, and include first and last names of participants. E-mail is preferred, but typed materials and photos (non-returnable) may be dropped off at, or mailed to, the Escondido office. Digital photos must be in JPEG format and 200-plus dpi. Try-out and sign-up information must be received three weeks prior to event.

Rick Hoff, Community Sports Editor
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/740-3545
Fax: 760/740-5045
e-mail: sports@nctimes.com

The North County Times feature sections include Food, Faith & Values, Home Page, Life & Times, Books, Trips and Social Scene. We welcome feature story ideas and local news items about upcoming events, classes, workshops and special appearances pertinent to each of our sections.

Pam Kragen, Arts and Features Editor
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/739-6658
Fax: 760/745-3769
e-mail: features@nctimes.com

In addition to covering our communities, the North County Times also reports on regional issues: courts, county government, minority affairs, politics, transportation and science and technology.

Teresa Hineline, Regional News Editor
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/739-6696
Fax: 760/745-3769
e-mail: thineline@nctimes.com

1) To the Editor

The North County Times is committed to an open letters forum. We invite letters on topics of public interest, and make every effort to print them all.
Writers must include full name, address and daytime phone number. We edit for taste, clarity, length and to avoid libel. Letters should be less than 200 words and will be further shortened when possible to make space for more letters. Writers are limited to one letter every two weeks. Priority is given to North County writers. Commercial complaints and endorsements are not published. Unsigned letters will be discarded.

Pattie Leipert
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/740-5471
Fax: 760/745-3769
e-mail: letters@nctimes.com

2) To Preview

We welcome signed letters regarding the arts in North County. Letters may be edited for taste, clarity, length and to avoid libel. They should be 150 words or less.

Pam Kragen, Entertainment Editor
North County Times
933 W. San Marcos Blvd, Bldg. A
San Marcos, CA 92069
Phone: 760/761-4400
Fax: 760/631-6630
e-mail: preview@nctimes.com

3) To Sports

We invite letters to the sports editor. You must include your full name, address and daytime phone number. They should be limited to 200 words.

Loren Nelson, Sports Editor
North County Times
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido, CA 92025
Phone: 760/740-3551
Fax: 760/740-5045
e-mail: sports@nctimes.com

Obituaries are paid notices, billed at the rate of $25 per column inch of published copy. A half-column photo is $50. Obituaries in paragraph form are welcome. All obituaries are edited to conform to The Associated Press style.

Obituaries can be placed online at: obits.nctimes.com; e-mailed to: obits@nctimes.com; faxed to: 760-901-4121, placed in-person at:
207 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Escondido;
1722 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside;
or 28765 Single Oak Dr., Suite 100, Temecula;
or via phone at 760-739-6639.