I'm a newspaper addict. I can't help myself.

I love reading newspapers, printed on newsprint, in color or in black and white. Smaller community newspapers, like the Petersburg Pilot are of more interest to me.

On family vacations, I buy every newspaper I can find in convenience stores or gas stations. Sometimes co-publisher Anne drives while I take in the news from the towns we drive through.

I have this theory that stories in every community newspaper are much the same, just with different names. To date that theory has held true.

At the end of the vacations, the rental car companies becom...