Beginning

First number was published on March 27, 1951. The newspaper was named 'Pergalė' ( 'The

Victory') . Articles and other texts were written by hand. In 1961 newspaper's name was changed to

' Mūsų žodis' ('The Our Word') .

The building in 1930

...and in 2016

Two diploma works were written about the newspaper

Printing

In 1962 a printing typesetting machine - a typesetter was started to use.

Statistics

At the beginning it was a weekly release. In 1953 it had 1000 readers and was released

three time s a week. In 1990 it had 8000 readers. Now it has is released twice a week and has

about 4000 readers.

'Mūsų žodis' also has its online edition and a Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/musuzodis/ On Tuesdays is released a special addition for

Samogitian region 'Vakarų Lietuva' (' The Western Lithuania') together with 6 other regional newspapers.

Publishing was fully computerized in 1997. Today the staff's work is unimaginable without a

recorder and a computer on each worker's table.

Famous people

Many famous Lithuanian writers and publicists start their writing careers in our regional newspaper.

Romualdas Granauskas- the winner of National Literature prize

Stasys Jonauskas- famous national poet Laimonas Inis Stase Bucevičienė Adolfas Strakšys

Editorial staff

Now the staff consists of 10 people : Editor Vice editor Reporter Publisher Layout operator Ad-maker Other technical staff

The editor Dalia Zabitienė

The main themes

Daily life of the district Social affairs Medical affairs Elections School life Famous people and places Sport, art and music events Advertisements and commercials Compassions Police news

The newspaper celebrated its 65th

anniversary last spring