Kenneth Hovland and his new bride Carol moved from Iowa to the Rockville section of Vernon, Connecticut in 1948.
[1] The paper's first edition was printed on Nov. 21, 1949, on a hand-cranked press in the kitchen of the couple's third-floor apartment.
[2] The Reminder name remained on the mastheads of all newspaper editions until November 2015, when the papers were redesigned and renamed Courant Community.
[1] The 15 local editions of the paper are filled primarily with photos, feature articles, human interest, sports, politics and education and business news.
There was also a section, as in many other periodicals, known as "Speak Out", in which reader editorials dealing with local and national issues are published.