Free every Thursday! Your #1 community and entertainment newspaper in Western North Carolina since 1978! FOCUS Newspaper has 100,000 weekly readers per its last verified poll. FOCUS Newspaper is distributed in the following counties: Alexander | Burke | Catawba | Caldwell | Gaston | Iredell | Lincoln. Providing local news, national news as well as weekly columnists. FOCUS Newspaper has an Mobile App available on itunes or google play store.