While you're on the internet looking for some Durham real estate and a job with a strapping machine manufacturer, you should also be looking for ways to streamline your acceptance into your new city. Welcome Wagon organizations, community groups, and relocation experts are frequently used methods of integration for outsiders, but there's one that's far cheaper if you're willing to put in the work. It's called "reading the local paper." It'll keep you up to date on events and news that you can talk about with the people that populate your new life. In Durham, North Carolina, the paper everyone reads is the Durham Herald-Sun.
The Durham Herald-Sun is published every day of the week and is the primary printed source of information on local, national, and world news not just for Durham but for most of North Carolina. Its circulation doesn't stop at the cable glands factories on the edge of Durham but extends outward into the rest of Durham County and the entire Research Triangle area. You're just as likely to need its services if you move to Raleigh, Chapel Hill, or the counties of Orange, Person, Granville, or Chatham instead of Durham.
If you want to read the paper edition of the Durham Herald-Sun you can pick it up at any grocery story, newsstand, or convenience store in the above named areas. Or, if you want to read what Hamilton lawyers and foreign nations have been up to over breakfast, you can sign up for home delivery. It costs $45 for 12 weeks and $174 for a whole year. If you're not sure you want to make such a big monetary commitment right away, you can also sign up for a two week free trial.
Printed papers are great to read at the breakfast table or on the bus to work, but many people prefer to save paper and do all their reading online. If that's the case, you can subscribe to the online edition of the paper for significantly less: about $18 for 12 weeks and $70 for a year. It still has all the same news, information, and job listings for nutrient management services companies, but the ad format for digital editions is different - they might be image or video ads instead of typical newspaper blocks.
Of course, you don't have to pay to get the most important benefit for free - the connectivity factor. You can visit the paper online at www.heraldsun.com and read the headline stories, which will be enough to talk about around the water cooler at your water treatment chemicals job. You can also post comments, share your own stories, and share what you've read on social networking sites like Facebook.
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