Be our eyes and ears in Oley

Berks-Mont Newspapers is on a mission—a mission to find community columnists.

Our local quarterly newspaper, The Oley Valley Sentinel, has already been mailed out to local residents with a preview of this year’s Oley Fire Company Peach and Ice Cream Festival August 9 (See photo from the 2007 festival above.)

And we’re hoping to recruit a new stable of local community writers to be a part of our next issue.

Berks-Mont Newspapers is looking for five committed columnists from the sentinel’s coverage area to create quarterly columns, about 800 words each, for the communities of Oley, Pike, Ruscombmanor and Alsace Townships and the Oley Valley School District.

Ideal candidates will be residents of each community and well connected with local residents. We’ll look to you to provide important community news and events and to be ambassadors for our newspaper.

Other opportunities for freelancing may also arise. If interested submit your name, contact information, resume, and writing or photography samples to shessinger (at) berksmontnews (dot) com.