Once you finish up the process of selling your home and dressage barn in London, Ontario, you'll be looking toward your future of living and working in Stamford, Connecticut. You'll want to integrate yourself into the community, make new friends, and just generally feel at home in Stamford. The first step you can make toward achieving that goal is by reading the Stamford Advocate. As the region's local daily newspaper, it can go a long way toward teaching you about the community and familiarizing you with its people. Read on to find out more about the Stamford Advocate.

If you live in Stamford, or anywhere in southwestern Connecticut, the Stamford Advocate is where you turn for all your news and to check out what's going on in the community and what the gold bullion prices are like. The paper has been around since 1829 (though it was called the Stamford Intelligencer back then) and is the oldest surviving business in Stamford. The Stamford Advocate has a circulation of around 25,000 people and editions for every day of the week so you never have to miss anything.

The primary goal of the Stamford Advocate is to report the news, with a special focus on local news that is of interest to Stamford residents rather than people living in vacation rentals in Puerto Vallarta. So if there's a car accident, a new business opening up, or a debate over whether to cut down a real tree for the city hall Christmas display, the Stamford Advocate will report on it. Of course, national and international events affect residents too, so there are state, national, and international news sections as well as sports, business, and entertainment news.

Another function the newspaper serves is as a means for buyers and sellers to find one another. You might see an ad for a spaghetti dinner or a sporting goods store in amongst the paper's content, and you can place ads yourself for used woodworking machines in the classifieds section. You can also make your opinion known to the other residents by writing a comment or an editorial on what you've seen in the paper. Many people also get it for the weather reports, obituaries, police blotter blurbs, decorating tips, and recipes.

If you would like to start reading the Stamford Advocate, you can buy a copy at almost any store in town, or read it for free at many shops and libraries in southwestern Connecticut. Once you get your commercial property mortgage settled you can also have it delivered to your house for only $6 a week. If you're more of a computer or e-book reader person, you can also subscribe to the e-edition. If you're from out of town, you can read blurbs and some full stories online at the paper's website: www.stamfordadvocate.com.