Accessing Sunday’s North e-edition

One of the most frequent emails the readers’ rep receives about the e-edition is how to access the Sunday North County Local section.

The e-edition is an exact replica of the printed newspaper available in a digital format for your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. All subscribers have access to the e-edition.

On Sundays, the U-T publishes a Metro Local section, and a North County Local section. The North County Local section contains community news, columns, calendar items and The (almost) Back Page, a collection of short, out-of-the-ordinary items from news services. The page features the syndicated News of the Weird column. The North County edition also has six pages of comics vs. four for Metro. The (almost) Back Page and the two extra pages of comics trace back to the North County Times, which the U-T bought in 2012.

Longtime coastal North County residents might remember The Back Page from the Blade-citizen in Oceanside. The page originated there in the early 1990s. (The Blade-citizen and the Escondido Timesadvocate merged in 1995 to form the North County Times.)

Through the e-edition, subscribers countywide can access the Sunday North County edition. Here’s how I call it up.

I go to the U-T website — sandiegouniontribune.com — and click on “enewspaper” at the top of the site. Once I’m in the e-edition, I go to the top of the page, in the upper right, and click on four little squares. That’s where I get “editions.” Then I can access the North section, or the Metro section.

Why public safety items run in A Sundays

A reader emailed recently to ask why public safety briefs appear in the B section Monday through Saturday, but in the A section Sundays. The reason is the Sunday Metro and North Local sections are completed Friday night. The pages go to press early Saturday morning. Sunday’s A section, however, is completed Saturday night. So the A section is the home for public safety news that happened late Friday night and Saturday.