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What is "local paper"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
local paper
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy.
▪ It was a reporter from the local paper, inquiring why Jones had hung a pillowcase out her window.
▪ Perhaps the local paper will take photographs for a story and make copies available to you afterwards.
▪ They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper.
▪ Wait till you see your picture with Petey in the local paper.

Usage examples of "local paper".

I carried my plate over to an empty table and sat down to eat and read the local paper.

For five dollars Walter Bellamy would advertise in the local paper his intention of awarding the Grebes title to their farm, and in due time they would receive from Washington a legal paper, signed by President Wilson himself.

The news media in every place asked the same questions, written down or taped the same answers, and printed them as new news in every local paper.

This was noted by the tower controller, whose brother was a police reporter for a local paper.

In Calgary, Alberta, a reporter for a local paper who'd never got over her crush on Dwayne Hickman was startled by the picture and the voice-over, and called her city desk.

It was a journalist from a local paper who, late one night, managed to do what no one else in the world had so far managed, which was to strike up a brief intelligible conversation with one of the service robots guarding the perimeter.