Not long after Nellie Murrow moves to Bear Creek, Maine, a sleepy little town, news of vandalism and theft keep her itching to do some reporting--as the daughter of two former newspaper reporters this is natural--but the town's newspaper has folded. Nellie decides she could create her own independent press, "The Cub Report," but making friends is hard in a new, small town, and that will make it almost impossible to recruit journalists.