School Briefs, Club Notes, Beliefs Briefs, Arts & More, Sports Briefs, and other calendar-type listings and community news: 5 p.m., Wednesday, a week before the desired publication date.

Letters to the Editor: 9 a.m., the Friday prior to publication.

Obituaries and Celebrations are due Friday at 10 a.m.

In all cases, it's best to get information to us before the weekend to increase the chances that it might be included in the next week's paper.

Receiving information by e-mail streamlines the process for getting such information into the paper. (Please send e-mail to the general addresses listed below; sending it to the e-mail of a particular staff member means other staff members can't see it and that may delay getting the information into the paper.)

Send information to:

School news, caryschools@newsobserver.com

Sports news, tcnsports@newsobserver.com

General news and other sections of the paper, carynews@newsobserver.com

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