Contact Us

Contact Us

• How can we help you?

  Physical location: 431 South Fayetteville Street, Asheboro

  Directions: If you’re coming from north of town, look for us just past the intersection with Wainman Avenue on the left. If you’re coming from the south, we are just past the intersection with Kivett Street on the right. Parking is in the gravel lot beside the vacuum shop.

  Mailing addresses: PO Box 1044, Asheboro (27204) or 431 South Fayetteville Street (27203)

  Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

  Phone: (336) 625-5576

  Fax: (336) 625-1228

  News submissions/story ideas: news@randolphguide.com
  Display/classified advertising: advertising@randolphguide.com
  Legal advertising: legalads@randolphguide.com
  Newspaper delivery: subscriptions@randolphguide.com

  Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/therandolphguide

  Our Staff
  Publisher: Patricia M. Edwards
  E-mail: pedwards@randolphguide.com

  Advertising Director: Brenda D. West
  E-mail: bwest@randolphguide.com

  Staff Writer: Larry Penkava
  E-mail: lpenkava@randolphguide.com

  Graphics: Angela Goins
  E-mail: advertising@randolphguide.com
  
  How to get information to us
  All submissions must be in writing – either in person, through e-mail, by fax or by mail. Word documents should be saved in the most compatible form available on your computer. Newer PC systems often add .wpd or .docx at the end. Unfortunately, we cannot open either of those. Just be sure your document is Microsoft 1997-2003 compatible and we should have no problems opening it. If you are sending photos, please be sure they are sent as attachments to your e-mail and not embedded.

  Submitting photos via e-mail? We have a few tips
  The bigger the size of the file, the better: Files that are under 1 MB don't make for very good photos once we pull them into our photo software. But don't feel like you need to send a photo that's as large as your TV screen, either! Anywhere between 1 MB and 6 MB will be fine.

  Send us JPEGs: JPEGS are the easiest photos to send via e-mail. Just be sure it has a .jpg at the end and you should be OK.

  Tell us all you can: If you're submitting a photo, tell us as much as you can about it – who the people are (their names, titles, age, city of residence, where the photo was taken, etc.) If you give us more information than we need, we'll omit what we don't need. But we would rather have too much information than not enough.

  How can we contact you? The probability of us needing to contact you is low but just in case, we like to have a daytime phone number or cell number in the event we need to confirm any of the information about the photo.

  Submitting hard copy photos? We have a few tips
  Bring us the original photo: Photos that have been printed off a computer don't reproduce well. Try to bring us the actual photo if you can.

  The bigger, the better: Just like with e-mailed photos, the bigger the photo you send us or bring by, the better. Remember this simple rule: You can make a quality small photo from a large one but you can't make a quality large one from a small one.

  Quality: Don't submit photos that are blurry – they will still be blurry once we scan them in.

  Polaroids are great for parties but not for newspapers: Instant photos might look great to the naked eye, but to the newspaper eye, they don't. It's rare that a good photo can be made from a scan of a Polaroid photo. But if that's all you have, bring it and let us look at it.

  Get unframed: Simply put, we would feel more comfortable if you took that photo of your Uncle JimBob out of the frame before you bring it to us.

  Support is good: If you are mailing us a photo, put a piece of cardboard or other stiff material (like a Manila folder cut to size) in the envelope. That will keep your photo from becoming bent while it's on its way here.

  Return to sender: Want that photo back when we are done? Be sure to indicate that you would like to get the photo back and we'll be happy to mail it back to you if you provide us with a return address. Otherwise, you can come by during business hours and pick it up. All unclaimed photos from each year are thrown away at the end of January the next year.

  Special features
  We carry American Profile, Relish and Spry, three editorial products from Publishing Group of America. American Profile is about the people, places and events from throughout the United States while Relish celebrates our love of food and Spry celebrates the joys of aging. We also carry primetime television listings each week that cover Wednesday of one week (our publication day) to Tuesday of the next week.
  We also feature Focus on Senior Living the last Wednesday of each month, with a focus on seniors in Randolph County. Any agency or group that caters to seniors is welcome to submit information for inclusion. This can include photos and write-ups of recent events, information on upcoming events or any other information that would be of use to seniors.

  Reflections On The Past calendars – an enduring favorite
  Our Reflections On The Past calendar, which is distributed free to home subscribers each November and is available for $2 at our office, is one of our more popular offerings. We started the calendar in 2000 (for the year 2001) and its popularity has grown over the years.
  The centerpiece of the calendar is the old photos we feature on each month and the recipes that accompany those photos. We are sold out of the 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions.
  We solicit submissions from the public for both throughout the year so if you have some old photos of sights and events in Randolph County, bring them by. We'll scan them into our system while you wait. All we ask is that you provide as much information as you can.

  Local columnists, local color
  We feature columnists who have been part of our family for years: Tom Gillespie with Zoo Tales, Pattye Harris with Out 49 & Beyond, Mr. Movie with Rusty Hammond, Sandy Jarrell with Simply Sandy and our own Larry Penkava, who has been writing Now & Then – his quirky take on life and all other things – since 1994. We also feature weekly columns by the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service and D.G. Martin, host of N.C. Bookwatch. We also feature Outdoor Truths, written by Gary Miller, an outdoor writer, author and speaker. His columns are about the great outdoors but are grounded in his spiritual faith.

  Who we are
  We’ve been in our current location for more than 50 years and have been covering Randolph County since 1954.
  We strive to give our readers news about Randolph County, about the people who call it home, about issues that affect Randolph County as well as information about events and happenings outside of Randolph County. Simply put, we want our readers to have access to information for their whole life.
  We could subscribe to the wire services like larger papers often do, but we recognize that in this day of news coverage that is 24/7/365, our focus should be on what’s happening in our own backyard. We believe that the true heart of a newspaper is in the stories it covers and in the information it provides to its readers.
  The Randolph Guide is published each Wednesday and is delivered to subscribers through the U.S. Postal Service. Single copy sales are available at more than 35 racks located throughout Randolph County. To subscribe, click on the Subscriber Services tab at the left and follow the prompts. You can choose to pay for your subscription on our secure site or you can choose to have a bill mailed to you. Delivery will begin once we receive your payment. You can also call us at (336) 625-5576 during regular business hours and we will take your credit card information over the phone.

  September 28, 2011

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