The Journey to 2023 from 2017: What a long, amazing ride these five and one half years

Dear Valued Readers and Advertisers:

Wow. Just like that, as 2022 ends it has been 5 ½ years that the Weekly News has come to you under my watch. That is 5 years of Art's Alive, Not-so-Impromptu Parades, July 4th parades and fireworks, Halloween parades, boat parades, Pancake Breakfasts with Santa, Gilkey Square tree lightings, four high school state volleyball championships and, of course, Tulip Festivals.

Those stories and more have been in your community newspaper. What a long, wonderful trip it has been.

All this while, since January 2018, the price of advertising in the Weekly News...