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The Stillwater NewsPress, owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., also provides newspapers for Cushing, Glencoe, Perkins, Ripley, Yale, Morrison, Perry, Pawnee and Coyle
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Rex Maynor, publisher, Laura Wilson, reporter and Chris Day, sports, all meet for their Editorial Board meeting to discuss topics for the paper
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Rex discusses issues like the water crisis in Stillwater, weighing their options for how to approach the sensitive issue
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Rex and JB write out their ideas for the next weeks worth of newspapers
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Chase Rheam, a multimedia journalist for the Stillwater Newspress, looks for a good shot on assignment at Highland Park Elementary
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Chase Rheam shoots a group shot of Highland Park Elementary students with horses from a local ranch
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A little girl sits in the grass, reading her new book - a perfect photo op for Chase
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Chase speaks with a Highland Park teacher, hoping to find a couple of children to interview for his story
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Two students speak with Chase about the new books they just received as a gift from the ranch
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The children posing with their books for a quick picture
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Chase sets up his camera for an interview with Frank Bickell
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Frank is an 86-year-old World War II veteran who is receiving his high school diploma this May
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Chase speaks with Frank about his time spent in Europe during WWII
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Frank has a hard time discussing his experiences in Europe as the memories come back to him
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Frank pulls out an envelope full of old pictures from his Army days in WWII
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Chase gets video of the photos for his multimedia assignment that will be posted on the NewsPress website
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Frank points out a special picture, one that he found in a concentration camp that he helped liberate
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Chase takes a picture of Frank holding an old photo of him in his military uniform when he was a teenager
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Chase edits photos that he took earlier that day, preparing them for the paper
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Laura Wilson does some fact checking while she writes the obituaries
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JB Bittner, the photo editor, works on pagination, the process of numbering the pages
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A film negative of the paper is observed on the light table to show how it will look once it is printed
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The press that was used at the NewsPress until November 2011. The papers are now printed in Enid, Okla. and picked up every night
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Newspapers getting ready to have their ads placed inside of them before they are bundled
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Workers unload a truck with a new shipment of papers in from Enid
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Thousands of papers are unloaded from the truck into the back of the NewsPress where they will be bundled and organized for the morning carriers
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Using a machine, the papers are bundled with a piece of paper that tells the carriers which houses to take the papers to
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The bundles are organized by route number for the carriers
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A fresh bundle of NewsPress papers
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A newspaper vending machine sits outside of the NewsPress, holding the latest paper