Rockton-Roscoe News to publish special holiday print edition on Dec. 1

Rockton-Roscoe News will release a special holiday print edition on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023. About 2,000 copies of the full-color eight-page special will be available for free at local businesses throughout Roscoe, Rockton, and South Beloit. We published our first-ever print edition in September 2023 and we are planning to publish more. Make sure you are on our subscription list to receive announcements.

Some of the locations where you will be able to pick up your copy: DeeDee's Main Street Coffee & Decor, Sophia's Restaurant, Talcott Free Library, North Suburban Library District, Louie's Tap House, Prairie Hill Meats, Al’s Main Street Tap, Culver's, Pizza Ranch, Schnucks, Kelly's Market, Casey's General Store, Fas Mart, Kwik Trip, CVS, and Walgreens.

Some of the stories in this issue: holiday events in the Stateline, details about the Rockton Christmas Walk and Hometown Holidays in Roscoe, including sponsors, and an especially complete version of our community calendar. 

Contact us to advertise in this special edition or call 815-408-0140. Besides 1/4 page, 1/2 page, and full-page ads, advertisers can receive our regular online advertising as well.

Please let us know if you want a stack of newspapers to distribute at your business or storefront customers. You can also download a digital PDF version.

In April 2021, Rockton-Roscoe News began publishing daily local news online at roscoenews.com. Now our stories are read up to 100,000 times a month, with 1,500 daily email subscribers in the Stateline area and more than 4,500 followers on Facebook.

Rockton-Roscoe News  is the first daily news outlet for Roscoe and Rockton since the area was settled 185 years ago. A separate publication, The Herald, began in Rockton in the 1870s, but on a weekly schedule. Roscoe has never had its own newspaper, though The Herald was known as the Rockton-Roscoe Herald in the 1980s and 1990s. The Beloit Daily News, which also serves South Beloit, began in the 1840s and and in June 1995, became Wisconsin's first newspaper web site with daily local news. 

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