GENTRY — The Gentry office of the Courier-Journal and the Decatur Herald moved to Gravette last week, with a merger of the Decatur, Gentry and Gravette newspapers set for Aug. 4.

Phone calls or fax transmissions to the Gentry and Decatur phone numbers will automatically be transferred to the new office location once all phone line transfers are complete and the new phone system is working.

E-mail addresses remain unchanged from the new ones assigned after the formation of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC.Randy Moll, managing editor of the newspapers and reporter for the Gentry area, may be reached at rmoll@ nwaonline.com. Janelle Jessen, Decatur reporter may be contacted at jjessen@ nwaonline.com. News for the Gentry area may still be sent to gentrynews @ nwaonline.com. Decatur newsmay be sent to decaturnews @ nwaonline.com.

News items, photographs, announcements, subscriptions and advertising may be submitted to the new office located on Main Street in Gravette (just east of Arkansas Highway 59), called in by telephone or sent by e-mail or the U.S. Postal Service. Subscriptions and advertising may also be handled through our Siloam Springs office, located on Mt. Olive, across from the park and fire station. The telephone number there is 479-524-5144.

Beginning with the Aug. 4 issue, the three newspapers will be combined into one new newspaper, the Westside Eagle Observer. Local coverage of each community, however, will continue.

Those with current subscriptions to the Decatur Herald, Gentry Courier-Journal or Gravette News Herald will automatically begin receiving the Westside Eagle Observer when publication begins on Aug. 4.

Community, Pages 7 on 06/30/2010