Today, Scot Scoop News is proud to announce the release of the long awaited text message alerts, Disqus comment system, and many more add-ons that will enhance your experience on our site.

With text message alerts, users will receive the latest news live on their mobile devices. Once you subscribe to our messaging system on our homepage, you will receive messages from [email protected] with all of the news, sporting event scores, and special event updates your wireless device can handle! Messages are sent via text message and will help you stay on top of the news you care about. To make sure you receive messages from Scot Scoop News, please add [email protected] to your address book. Alerts are available with most wireless carriers.

Scot Scoop News has also been working hard in making our news site more engaging with our readers, along with maintaining its safe environment. To make our comment system even better, we’ve migrated from Google Friend Connect to Disqus comments. Our new comment system will allow you to log in with an existing account on FaceBook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Google, or OpenID, rather than limiting it to just Google users. With Disqus, users will now be able to “like” or “dislike” an article and are able to reply to other comments easily. We hope you’ll like these new features.

And for months, the Scot Scoop News team has been rolling out new features and modifying the layout of our homepage. For the next couple of months, we will be making more improvements and users may experience some difficulty accessing or using our site. Please send us an email to [email protected] if you experience any problems.

For now, make sure you’re connected with us on FaceBook at http://www.facebook.com/CarlmontHighlander, Twitter at @scotscoopnews, and sign up for our email newsletters and text message alerts.