To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to obits@pioneerpress.com. There is no option to place them through our website. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions.
General Information:
Your full name,
Address (City, State, Zip Code),
Phone number,
And an alternate phone number (if any)
Obituary Specification:
Name of Deceased,
Obituary Text,
A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo.
Ad Run dates
There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply.
If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply, contact us for more information.
Policies:
Verification of Death:
In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program, or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification.
Please allow enough time to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours.
A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are necessary.
Guestbook and Outside Websites:
We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead; contact us with any questions regarding this matter.
Obituary Process:
Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and days the notice is scheduled to appear.
Please review the proof carefully. We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day’s deadlines.
After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing.
Online:
Changes to an online obituary can be handled through the obituary desk. Call us with further questions.
Payment Procedure:
Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents.
Credit Card: Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations
EFT: Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number.
Cash: Accepted at our FRONT COUNTER Monday – Friday from 8:00AM – 3:30PM
Rates:
The minimum charge is $162 for the first 10 lines.
Every line after the first 10 is $12.20.
If the ad is under 10 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162.
On a second run date, the lines are $8.20 per line, starting w/ the first line.
For example: if first run date was 20 lines the cost would be $164.
Each photo published is $125 per day.
For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500.
Deadlines:
Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested.
Hours
Deadline (no exceptions)
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Photos
MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST
Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries.
Please call or email us for more memoriam information
Please call 651-228-5280 for more information.
HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS)
Please submit your memoriam ad to memoriams@pioneerpress.com or call 651-228-5280.
Lori Barghini and Julia Cobbs are returning to the airwaves with a new podcast, “Lori and Julia Still LOUD!” which debuts Oct. 1.
The pair hosted the afternoon talk show “Lori and Julia” for 22 years on MyTalk 107.1 and helped to establish the station as a go-to for women’s voices. Last year, they surprised listeners when they announced they were ending the program, citing Barghini’s desire for more free time as well as the rigors of producing the show, which aired three hours a day, five days a week. Now, they’ll issue two new hour-long podcasts each week.
“It’s going to be perfect for us,” Barghini said. “We’re going to love this new schedule.”
Barghini said she always knew they would end up doing a podcast at some point, but she wanted to take at least a year off before pursuing the new venture. The first person they talked to was Ginny Hubbard, CEO of MyTalk’s parent company Hubbard Radio.
“She said she hoped we’d talk to her first and I told her, ‘Absolutely, you hired us for the radio. Of course we’re coming to you first,’” Barghini said.
They reached an agreement to produce “Still LOUD!” for Hubbard Radio’s Gamut Podcast Network, which distributes shows featuring longtime KQRS “Morning Show” host Tom Barnard and Pioneer Press columnist Joe Soucheray along with other local and national podcasts.
Listeners can expect to hear a similar format to the pair’s radio show. “We’re going to continue to be People magazine for people’s ears,” Barghini said. “We’ll talk about pop culture, what TV shows we’re obsessed with, movies, music, whatever we find interesting.”
Initially, it’ll just be the two of them, but they do plan to start inviting guests once they get settled. And Barghini said “Still LOUD!” will be a bit looser and more informal now that they’re freed from the constraints of commercial radio: “I like that idea that we can be — I don’t want to say raunchier, because Julia doesn’t really like raunchy — but I like the idea of being able to be more frank about some things we might have pulled back on (on the air). You know, we’ll just be laying it out there.”
The pair, who are sisters-in-law, have remained close in the time since they left MyTalk and have hosted some public events together. They just returned from a group trip they led to Paris.
Tuesday, they recorded their first trial run of the podcast.
“The hour went by just like that,” Barghini said. “It did feel (like riding a bike again), but we didn’t have to be aware of stopping the clock or changing directions every 10 minutes. It was nice to be able to go on and off and on something like we used to in the early days on the radio, when we didn’t have any advertisers. It was just us entertaining each other.”
New episodes of “Lori and Julia Still LOUD!” will drop at 11 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays and can be found on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Google or wherever listeners find their podcasts.