Reading-North Reading: You Spoke, We Listened
On Thursday we are going back to two separate sites.
We have a big announcement to make. On Thursday, February 7 we will be restoring Reading Patch and North Reading Patch back to two separate sites.
Based on the feedback we’ve seen from you, our faithful readers and advertisers, it was just good common sense to return these original sites. Now, instead of asking you to find the news and information you need from one site, each town will have one, dedicated place: right here: North Reading Patch or Reading Patch!
We know … well, why did you change it? We had hoped to offer you the same robust coverage of everything happening in both towns. We discovered tremendous support for our continued coverage of the things that matter to residents of each community!
Jessica
6:53 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Thank you!!!
laura
7:01 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Makes the most sense - sinse we are two different towns!
laura
7:05 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Makes the most sense- sinse we are two different towns.
De
7:53 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Thank you!!
Mary
8:51 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Thank you for listening. We are two different towns just like North and South Carolina are two different states! WooHoo!!!!
Julia Whitney Robarts
8:59 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Yippee!!! Thank you, Patch!
John Intorcio
9:12 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Yes! Thank you!!!!
Scott Stimpson
9:18 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Errr, I must be stuck in the seventeen hundreds. I always thought of Reading, North Reading and South Reading (errr, I mean Wakefield) as being three parishes in the same community. I am going to miss the news from the other parts of town. Guess I am going to have to subscribe to three different Patches.
Ron Powell
12:38 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Aye. I myself miss ye days when we were called Wood End.
Mel Webster
9:43 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Great news. Thank you, Patch.
D. Liver
10:07 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
This never should have happened in the first place. I'm looking forward to subscribing just to Reading, and not having to see another comment from JV, again.
George
1:28 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
I agree, he was so far out there it will be pleasant not to have to read that negativity.
melee
4:49 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
take me with you... please
Joe Veno
7:59 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
@ D.Liver, I will be on there also......JV
Helena Minton
10:15 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Thank you, Patch!!
M
10:15 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Thanks. It is very simple to see & read the nearby patch pages - just click on the "nearby" button at the top of the page and scroll to the town you need. I am already someone who regularly reads & contributes comments @ Patch, but I certainly spend more time on the page (hello advertisers) when there is more content relevant to my town.
E
11:53 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
OK...SO now I have to tune into the Reading patch to keep up mith the musings of Barry from Reading.
Bummer.
E
Dave Miskinis
11:58 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Well, I've been following the N. Reading high school fiasco, simply to make myself feel better about the Reading library fiasco.
Dave Miskinis
12:35 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
They combined the two sites because that's what the people wanted.....they divided the two sites because that's what the people wanted. What fickle peopel we are....
Stan Still
1:23 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Dave they did not combine to two Patches because that's what the people wanted. It was an internal decision from Patch itself.
Dave Miskinis
1:53 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Stan...at the time, they explained that the reason they were doing it was becasue people had asked for it.
Jay Boyer
3:05 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
For Pete's sake, there are people starving and poor in the world and you idiots are arguing about a combined site!! You people get your news, are you ever Happy?
Joe Veno
8:02 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Dave, I never saw or read anything where the people said they wanted to combine the two towns.
Barry
11:14 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Dave, Patch claimed that people wanted a unified site, but that's utter BS, because the same explanation (practically word-for-word) was used in the many other site "mergers" that Patch did over the last couple of years.
Fred Chalmers
12:06 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Dave, now that's funny!
Ted Cartwright
12:36 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
I can understand lots of people not wanting to share news and info about both towns. Many times I had to stop and look to see which town was being written about.
But besides both towns being one once (students from North Reading came to Reading every day as little as 55 years ago.), there are still many connections in our daily lives. Having grown up and worked in North Reading all my life, and lived in Reading for 39 years, it will be difficult for me to separate the two. Of course, now-a-days, everything is "my town only and nothing else" is the general feeling. Wouldn't it be fun to find out how many people actually came from the other town, ""because they didn't want to be far from home.
Mary B
4:03 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Thank you for finally listening. The two Patches should have never been combined in the first place. Too bad it took so long for the Patch to see the light.
North Reading and Reading are seperate communities with seperate identities. I am glad to see the the Patch finally learned that the people and the advertisers did not wZnt to be combined.
JIM
7:51 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Finally, Yes Patch You listened but it took 11 Months . Why now ?
peter lucci
8:52 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
I agree with George and d. liver, it will be great not having to listen to the biggest know it all who knows virtually nothing except how to spread misinformation and practice his cyber-bullying.
Barry
11:13 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Peter, we're all going to miss your responses to Joe V.
Joe Veno
5:34 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Barry what makes you think Iwill not be on the Reaing page? Well whatever your reason for thinking that you are wrong..
peter lucci
7:31 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Once a stalker always a stalker. Can't wait to continue reading Joe's twisted/misinformed opinions on the goings on in Reaing!!!
Joe Veno
8:19 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Do not worry peter I will not let you down !!
peter lucci
8:36 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Not worried at all my friend, you have always come through with another head scratcher just when we all thought that maybe you had smartened up. Look forward many more chuckles in the future. But all bull aside, you are and always have been a good man who cares deeply for both communities, we need more folks like you.
George
9:27 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
No we don't. Cares deeply! Only for his own ego.
Anthony Martinez
12:34 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
We are never ever ever getting back together.
peter lucci
5:58 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I'll really miss getting updates as to who caught the biggest carp each week at Martins Pond.
Pasta Pete
10:50 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
It's the 7th of February, why am i still seeing N. Reading
John Intorcio
11:12 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Because it's the only town that matters!! ;)
Les Masterson
12:09 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Check back later this afternoon!
Kerstin March
11:47 am on Sunday, February 10, 2013
I'm only getting Reading Patch emails since the split, even though I signed up for North Reading Patch long before the merger. Do I need to unsubscribe or something?
Jessica
12:20 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Kerstin, same thing happened to me. Click on your name at the top of the page and the drop down box should say account. When you click that it should give you your choices.
Jessica
12:22 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
On the left hand side you will see notifications. That is where you change it.