25 correspondents report from the surrounding area: Harrislee, Mittelangeln, Schafflund, Tarp, Lindewitt, Langballig, Handewitt, Gelting, Amt Eggebek and Hürup.

Known contributors have included Hugo Eckener, who wrote as a cultural critic for the newspaper, and Wolfgang Börnsen, who reported from 1963 as a "breaking news village reporter", including the snow catastrophe in northern Germany in 1978.

From 1788 to 1853 the "Flensburg weekly paper" brought besides messages still popular educational texts in the tradition of the Enlightenment.

The printer and travel agent Ludolf P. H. Maaß from Itzehoe took over the newspaper a year later.

Johanna Maaß was also the wife of aviation pioneer Hugo Eckener, who worked at the newspaper as a cultural critic.