All legal newspapers are required to publish public notices that are ordered by a governmental body or law office. The week in which they appear, or the body copy, is mandated by the party that sends it to your local newspaper. We print what is ordered, per our requirement as a legal newspaper.

A certain number of news inches are reserved for each issue of the newspaper. It may seem disproportionate when we receive many orders for legal notice publishing, but those notices do not take the place of local news.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)