SR News stories popular with other news outlets
Scripps Ranch News is a simple community news outlet serving local neighborhoods, but its selection of original stories which it has published has gained the attention of other news outlets.
Scripps Ranch News was the first to publish a feature about local resident Oliver Smoot who had a stellar career in systems coding and computer privacy, and eventually became chairman of the board of the American National Standards Institute as well as president of the Council of the International Organization of Standardization. But Smoot might best be known, at least in the Boston area where he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as the guy whose height was used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge as a fraternity right of passage one night. That bridge is still marked in Smoot lengths to this day. Houston Chronicle columnist Joe Holley read the article and contacted Scripps Ranch News earlier this year to see about getting in touch with Smoot for one of his columns. Holley was especially interested in Smoot because he is a native of Texas. So, the two conducted an interview and a piece about Oliver Smoot appeared in the Houston Chronicle in April.
Scripps Ranch News published a cover story in January about the rescue of a badly injured kitten named Oreo. The incredible efforts of Scripps Ranch resident Susan Kilmer, along with her sister Dovey, were featured in an episode of the Zevely Zone in March on CBS 8 News.
In addition, Fox 5 News reached out to Scripps Ranch News for contact information about a championship pickleball team featured in the February edition of the newspaper. Mark Schmitt, one of the players on the team, said the TV station contacted him recently about a possible morning live feed interview.