November 4, 2020

The Best Times again has won the top Best of Show award by the North American Mature Publishers Association.

Awards recently were announced during NAMPA’s virtual national conference.

The magazine for Johnson County residents who are 60 years old or older received nine first-place awards and two second-place awards in writing on senior issues and features, editorial/ opinion, general excellence, cover photo and advertising.

Contest entries were judged by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. The Best Times competed in the division of publications with a circulation from 50,001 to 100,000.

The Best Times won the Best of Show award last year and in 2017.

NAMPA is a non-profit international association for publishers of local/regional aging adult and boomer publications. The organization involves a membership publishing more than 95 publications in 26 states, the District of Columbia and Ontario - Canada with a combined circulation of more than 4 million in the United States and Canada.