# 2011 Newspapers.com L-Ne index

Local/regional keepers from the signed-in Newspapers.com session (ghostlysec, Publisher Extra). This is not a complete 2011 census.

| Date | Outlet | Slug | Grade | Page image | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2011-01-01 | The Missoulian (MT) | zinke-uas-center | B1 | yes | Daily Inter Lake staff (Caleb Soptelean) reprint; Ryan Zinke / Montana UAS CoE |
| 2011-02-10 | The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | hancock-reaper-airspace | A1 | yes | Mark Weiner; 174th / Hancock / Schumer test-site amendment; A9 jump |
| 2011-05-27 | Las Cruces Sun-News (NM) | nmsu-shadow-hatch | B1 | yes | NMSU News Center (Dennis Zaklan); AAI Shadow 200 at Hatch FTC |
| 2011-06-03 | East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) | pendleton-shadow-iraq | A1 | yes | Samantha Tipler; Det. 1 / Shadow 200 mobilization (OCR retry succeeded) |
| 2011-06-15 | Grand Forks Herald (ND) | und-ldcap | A1 | yes | Erik Burgess; $11.4M LDCAP / $4M state; A5 jump |
| 2011-08-14 | Longview Daily News (WA) | quadcopter-fire | A1 | yes | Barbara LaBoe; Roswell Flight Test Crew at Maple Terrace burn |

**Records:** 6 local keepers with page scans on disk. Target 8–12 was not reached; 2011 is thin in staff UAS copy outside a few base/university towns. Do not pad.

## Rejected wires / non-keepers (2011)

- Grand Forks Herald, 12 Dec 2011, p.1 — Brian Bennett, McClatchy Tribune; Nelson County / Brossart Border Patrol Predator arrest. https://www.newspapers.com/image/1133451851/
- Grand Forks Herald, 15 Dec 2011, p.4 — letter about the McClatchy arrest story, not a staff original.
- Daily Inter Lake, 3 May 2011, p.3 — Pakistan/bin Laden drone-strike wire, not local UAS.
- East Oregonian, 17 Nov 2011, p.3 — no locked UAV story (public-safety log).
- Las Cruces Sun-News / El Paso Times, 21–27 Apr 2011 — Mesilla Valley EDA luncheon calendar briefs only.
- Jacksonville (NC) Daily News, 22 Sep 2011, p.27 — 2nd LAAD Stinger shoot at an unmanned aerial *target* (not a UAS program story).
- Jan 14 2011 multi-paper cluster — same-day sheriff/UAV wire reprint across Gannett/USA Today network papers.

## Scanned but not filed

- Alamogordo Daily News, 3 Jul 2011, p.1–2 (1180166104 / 1180166108). WSMR Network Integration Evaluation; James Hayden; one graf that Shadows can relay like an aerostat. NIE byline not locked on A1 OCR; UAV is incidental.

## Gaps

`"unmanned aerial"` 2011 search returned 1,688 page hits; this pass opened a local-first subset. Promising unopened: GF Herald Feb 19, Bend Bulletin Jun 13, Tulsa World Sep 5 p.1, McAllen Monitor Jun 20 p.1, Seymour Tribune Jul 1 p.1, Daily Inter Lake Nov 2 Zinke follow.

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