My favorite sections: the police blotter and the community calendar.

"You can look at the police blotter and see that these people are involved in a substantial amount of petty crime," he said.

The young woman reads the police blotter in the newspaper.

Still, he often finds himself the leading man of the police blotter.

The big city, Binghamton, about 20 miles away - now that's where the police blotter gets interesting.

Peter Soorenko's report could have come off the police blotter.

"The papers will probably get it from the police blotter."

And we tell them that the local beat writers in town check the police blotter every weekend for their names.

Almost every day a professional or college athlete is on a police blotter somewhere for something.

And he is a good citizen whose name does not end up on a police blotter once a month.