Many in the area who receive a weekly email newsletter from the online publication, The Brentwood Spirit, on Monday received an email announcing that access to the site, as of April 19, is available to paying subscribers only.
The Brentwood Spirit is a locally owned and operated website that covers Brentwood news.
First-time visitors to the site will have three alternatives: a free two-week trial period, pay $5 a month, or $50 a year for access to the site.
We here at 40 South News are very curious how this will unfold. Publishing a hyperlocal news site is a fulfilling, but challenging way to make a living. All the best to Brentwood Spirit editor, Steve Bowman.
I wish Steve Bowman and his staff all the best with the subscription campaign for the Brentwood Spirit. For years and years at BMS and BHS Steve took sport activity pictures, videos for graduations and many more projects that [as far as I know] were paid for by him and his family. And they are a great family~!!~ giddyup 🙂
Brentwood Spirit 50.00 a year- Mad Magazine 19.99- I’m going with A.E.Neuman.
amen
Steve the Brentwood Spirit is not run by the city. The Bowman’s produce it not the city. They have lived in Brentwood for a number of years. I can totally understand your unhappiness with City Hall but the Bowman’s and The Brentwood Spirit are not connected.
Whoa!!! I didn’t say that I was unhappy with Brentwood City Hall! I am fine with City Hall. I didn’t understand that a private entity was putting out the Spirit. Thank you very much for straightening that out for me, Kay. I can understand a private entity wanting to be paid for a service.
I want to wish those people at Brentwood City Hall, good luck in their internet pay-for-publishing scheme. They will have at least 20 people to publish for. There will be the Brentwood City Hall staff, the alder persons, and the wanna-be alder persons.
This is yet another facet of Brentwood’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type government. Let’s save money by out-sourcing some of our departmental workers, then let us USE that money by giving those folks that get laid off, a goodbye bonus. Let us tell the community everything, so that the workings of our government are transparent, but let’s charge them for seeing what they should be seeing, for free!
The value of my house fell last year, yet my taxes are higher.
I’ll stick with the Patch.