Do you use InDesign to lay out newspapers? Share your wisdom

I have found myself in the editor position of a small weekly newspaper. I've been using InDesign since high school, so I definitely know my way around it, but I know there are some things I learned that I could be doing more efficiently (i.e. I didn't know about setting paragraph styles in documents until this job, so I was manually setting fonts for every text box)

For those of you who have been doing this for a while, what tips do you have for how to make my life easier?