Get the LOCAL news here first: We beat the print a dozen times in June alone.

On Monday, as the local daily’s lead story was about the Greenwich Police considering encrypting all radio calls, OurGreenwich.com reported that the decision NOT to scramble all radio messages had already been made.  The local daily caught up with the story — and with us — today.

And if yesterday, you read for the first time about an arrested sex offender in Greenwich in the local daily, you would have learned of the arrest first here last Friday.

We reported the ACLU support of the Bridgeport Diocese suit before many papers in the state.  The GPD Youth Academy was reported here first.  Do you recall seeing anything in the local daily about the Greenwich Avenue institution, Subway Barbers shuttering?  We also reported on the GPD red-light crackdown and the Silver Shield’s Greenwich Avenue block party for Officer Tony Rivera some time before the local daily did,

On the political front, we beat the local papers in telling you about Lin Lavery’s candidacy press conference, the announcement for re-election by Peter Tesei and Ed Krumeich throwing his hat into the ring.  We were the first of the locals to have Fred Camillo’s report on his impressions of his rookie year and to tell of Lile Gibbons success in Hartford in saving the Safe Rides program.

And those 12 stories where OurGreenwich beat the pack WERE JUST DURING JUNE!

The freedom of the Internet and lack of corporate bureaucracy permit OurGreenwich.com to scoop the print papers regularly.

So read us first, then support the local papers, as sparse as the local news may be.