Some of you may have read the headline and thought, oh no, something big is happening at the paper. Well, you’re not wrong. But we just don’t have much news to share yet. We are actively searching for a printing press to take us on as a customer. With over 70 other publications in Colorado looking for the same thing, you can imagine it is a hurry-up-and-wait, scenario. The Denver Post has said they can’t take on a small print job. This leads me to wonder how many newspapers will go out of business in the next sixty days, because there just are not enough print spaces to go around. That doesn’t leave us out, it just means we have to keep calling, emailing and connecting until we find the right place. We have found a few printers that could take us on if we go down in pages (fine) and down in size (also fine). It’s all in the details.
In the meantime our entire TEAM is working on what this will look like for us, as a publication. We are looking at expanding our online presence. We have been talking about this for over a year. I thought this would happen around December. Now it looks like a good time to make it happen sooner. We’ll let you in on all of that exciting news soon!
I want to sincerely thank everyone on our TEAM for being part of the plan and helping to find solutions, with little notice, and a lot of scrambling. We’ll get this. And hey, as a reader, can you take a moment to fill out or survey about print and online news? It’s an important part of our process right now and can help guide us. It’s right here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MTNEARsurvey
Last, the thing I’m thinking a lot about today is my youngest son. I know, I know, but it can’t always be newspaper stuff, friends. My youngest has been working to enroll in community college and is planning to leave in just two weeks, to head towards his next destination. This means sometime between now and August 10, I’ll also head out there for a few days to help secure what’s needed for him to be successful. This wasn’t part of our plan at graduation, but I’m so excited for the plan now. I just have to figure out how to make it all fall into place (I used to be the puzzle master, but now the pieces don’t always fit together and it takes me longer to find the right ones). Whatever happens, we’re working hard to make this a reality (the newspaper, the website, and for me -- sending my son to school).
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