Thecity1.com, Morrison’s online newspaper, is truly grateful for its loyal “unique visitors”–over 67,000 in the first half of 2013. There were 44,200 of you in the last four months! You read 1,100,000 pages in six months. That indicates a broad range of interests bring you to thecity1.com. Each of you sitting at those individual, “unique,” computers is the reason for our growth and reputation. Thank you for that.
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Our Classified Ads section is free to those who become Users of the site. If you include photos, however, they will cost $5 each. Ads are your custom-designed advertisement and run for 30 days. A week before yours is to expire, you will receive an email reminder, so you can renew if desired. There are three ways to pay.
- Use the PayPal link if you have an account or wish to set up one.
- Pay in person at thecity1.com office, 218 W. Main Street, Suite 100 Morrison, IL. The Webmaster will post your ad after receipt of payment.
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On the Classified Ads page, sign up with a User name and password. Think of this as your mini-web page; log in to edit it whenever you want. If an item is sold/found/given away–just delete your ad.
Seven Categories are designed to help viewers search for a type of ad. Choose one before you log in. If the 59 subtopics do not precisely describe your ad, simply choose “Other” at the bottom of each Category list. All new ads scroll across the top of the page, regardless of the Category.
Have a question? Want to express your opinion or reminisce? Is there someone you want to acknowledge? Do all that on thecity1.com Forum. The public Forum is available to Users of the site.
Note to former Users: After installation of spambot detection software, some User IP addresses were blocked by the program. Those blocked IP’s were too similar to ones known to be spambot crawlers. If you were a User but cannot log in using your old information, kindly try again. On the Classified Ads page, sign up with a new User name and password. Call 815-772-8718 if you need assistance.
New Users will find instructions on the Classified Ads page.
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Education: Morrison Community Unit District 6
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