NENJ Best of 2025: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes in NENJ Best of 2025 and why the Corry Journal ballot matters

NENJ Best of 2025 is a readers' choice ballot for Corry, Pennsylvania, run by the Corry Journal and hosted on Second Street. The initials NENJ trace to the North East News Journal, the copyright holder named on the publisher's Best of the Best page, which ties the program firmly to the paper's own masthead rather than to a national contest brand.

The ballot exists because local readers want a say in which Corry area businesses, eateries and services deserve recognition. For the businesses on it, the program is a marketing moment: a nomination or a win is something a shop in a small city in this corner of Pennsylvania can point to all year. That is the classic small-paper best-of shape, where the publisher lends its credibility and the audience does the ranking.

Supporters reach the ballot through the journal's own Second Street address, corryjournal.secondstreetapp.com, which also hosts the paper's other reader promotions. The program is listed as a Ballot/NominationAndVotingBallot, meaning the round combines a nomination phase with voting rather than running a simple single-stage poll.

Key facts

The dated facts: which NENJ Best of editions are on file

Confirmed editions of the ballot span 2024, 2025 and 2026. The 2024 edition had its own ballot address, corryjournal.secondstreetapp.com/NENJ-Best-of-2024, and the 2025-named edition carries the URL this page documents. Running each year under a fresh promotion is standard Second Street practice for newspaper best-of ballots, and the Corry Journal has followed it through every edition year on file.

The most recent window is the best-dated fact on this page. The platform listing ties the current promotion to April 17 through May 31, 2026, and the promotion now shows closed. That spring window matches the shape readers should expect: the program's activity falls in April and May, with the ballot opening mid-April and wrapping before June.

Because three consecutive edition years are on file, the program reads as an annual fixture of the Corry Journal's calendar, and a 2027 round is the next slot in that pattern. The publisher has not announced opening and closing dates for a 2027 cycle in the material this page rests on. When the paper is ready, the dates appear first on its own Best of the Best hub and on the new Second Street promotion it launches for the round.

One honest gap sits alongside those dates: the publisher has not made the category lineup part of the published material behind this page, and that roster shapes everything from who can be nominated to how a supporter plans a push. The lineup is posted with each live ballot, so treat each new edition's form as the authority for that year's categories.

How a supporter votes in the Corry Journal Best of the Best today

The literal action is simple. A supporter opens the Corry Journal's Second Street ballot, moves through the categories the round publishes, enters or selects their favorite local businesses as the form directs, and submits. Because this is a NominationAndVotingBallot, the first phase of a round is about putting names on the ballot, and the later phase is about choosing among the nominees.

Timing matters more than anything else a supporter does. The 2026 round accepted submissions from April 17 to May 31, 2026; outside a live window, the same address simply shows a closed promotion with no way to participate. Anyone planning to rally support for a business should anchor their effort to the window the publisher announces, not to guesses about when the ballot might quietly be open.

The rules that govern repeat participation are the other thing every supporter should read before voting. The frequency terms, any eligibility limits and the treatment of bulk or automated submissions are published on the ballot page for each round, and the Corry Journal as the organizer controls what stays and what goes. Those rules belong to the publisher and can change between editions, so read them at the source rather than relying on a summary.

For a business that wants more support, the honest playbook fits a small-town audience: post the direct link, ask customers in person and on social channels, and remind them within whatever cadence the rules allow. Local readers' choice ballots reward genuine community reach, and a Corry shop's regulars are the most credible voters it will ever have. Tactics that work across ballots of this kind are collected in our outreach guide.

How this ballot sits beside Pennsylvania's other best-of programs

Pennsylvania has a deep bench of readers' choice ballots, and NENJ Best of 2025 occupies the small-market end of it. Where Best of Philly (Philadelphia Magazine) and Best of the 'Burgh rank businesses in major metros, the Corry Journal's ballot speaks to a single small city and its surrounding readership. The competition for a slot is different, the nominating audience is smaller, and a handful of committed supporters moves the needle far more than it would statewide.

Nearby in the northwest of the state, the Erie Reader Best of Erie ballot serves the region's largest city, an hour's drive from Corry. The two programs do not share a publisher, a platform account or a ballot, so support earned in one program has no bearing on the other, and a business that operates in both markets has to campaign in each on its own terms.

Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Best of Berks (Berks County Living Magazine), Best of the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh Valley Style) and the Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice ballot cover county and regional audiences, each answering to its own publisher. What sets the Corry Journal program apart within that company is its newspaper anchor: a weekly paper whose Best of the Best feature runs in its own pages and on its own Second Street organization, alongside the paper's Mainline Favorites ballots and quarterly sweepstakes. That mix makes the journal a one-stop home for reader promotions in its market, and it means a supporter who knows one Corry Journal ballot already understands the shape of the others.