THE LITTLE PAPER WITH
THE big HEART.
Coffee News exists because waiting for your eggs should be the best four minutes of your morning.
Local, light, and loud about the good stuff.
We believe a community paper shouldn’t make you tired. So we built one that reads like a friend leaning over the booth — quick stories, a couple of jokes, a recipe, and a list of who to support this weekend.
Every issue is curated by people who actually live here. We know the diner where the waitress remembers your order. We know which coffee shop has the best radiator seat in January. We put those places, and the people who run them, on the page.
No politics. No bad news. Just the warm stuff.
36 years on the counter.
First press run
Started on a kitchen table with a borrowed printer and a list of 12 diners willing to put a stack on the counter.
Crossed county lines
Distribution expanded into Camden and Burlington counties — readers sent us ‘missing you’ letters when we were late.
The Find AL contest
A doodled coffee bean named AL got hidden in the back page as a joke. Readers went feral. He stayed.
30 years of Mondays
Celebrated three decades by doing exactly what we always do: printing more papers and refilling the racks.
Brewed weekly
250+ pickup locations, 40,000+ weekly readers, hundreds of small businesses we’re proud to put in print.
Meet the publisher.
Jay grew up delivering his hometown paper on a banana-seat bike. He’s been hand-curating Coffee News stories since the very first issue, and still personally proofs every page on his back porch with a mug from 1992.
“If a story makes you smile before your coffee’s cold, we did our job.”