Blog feed back up

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We had some problems today with our blogs not feeding to the rrstar.com home page. It appears all is working again. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Blog feed down

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You may have noticed on rrstar.com that our blog feed is not working properly. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have the feed back up soon. Try this page for direct links to your favorite blogs.

We’re your home for election results

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Make rrstar.com your home for election results Tuesday. We’ll have the latest results for all the local races and we’ll have presidential results, too. We’re anticipating record traffic Tuesday evening and expect no problems. But just in case, we’ll have this site working in case rrstar.com is down.

In case all you care about is results, here’s a direct link.

Welcome back, e-mail headlines

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Some of you will be really happy to know that e-mail headlines is returning. Starting tomorrow, we’ll send out an e-mail at 4:30 a.m. with the latest headlines. If you were a past subscriber of e-mail headlines, you should have gotten an e-mail from us already.

If you have any questions, comment on this blog post or send me an e-mail at avoelker@rrstar.com.

Here’s a copy of the letter that went out to past subscribers. It includes links to subscribe if you would like to receive the daily e-mail:

Hello,

Welcome to rrstar.com’s e-mail headlines newsletter. On Tuesday, we launch a simple way to connect to the news. You are receiving this because you were a subscriber to our previous e-mail headlines.  Here’s what you need to know:

• E-mail headlines will arrive in your preferred Inbox before 5 a.m. If you want to change your preferred Inbox, click here to resubscribe.
• To continue receiving email headlines in this Inbox, simply do nothing.
• We invite you to “test drive” our new e-mail headlines. If, in the future, you want to cancel, use the unsubscribe link you will find at the end of each newsletter.
• Your first e-mail headlines newsletter will be sent tomorrow.
• As part of this service, you will receive occasional breaking news alerts.

The e-mail headlines newsletter will feature the following content:

• News – Local news and information around the Rock River Valley
• Sports – Preps, college, pro and team sports reports
• Busine ss – Local, state, national and international headlines
• Opinions – Conversation from local and national columnists and bloggers
• Multimedia – See the latest photo galleries posted at rrstar.com
• Obituaries
• Calendar of Events – Top picks for today in the Rock River Valley
• Nation/World – News from around the globe
• Odd News –You know them and love them; the just plain weird stuff
• Links to weather, HealthyRockford.com and BusinessRockford.com

Click Here for a sample of the new e-mail headlines newsletter you will receive tomorrow.
Click Here to unsubscribe