Thanks a bunch
When it comes to counting our blessings, this business is a snap.
Each week, we keep a tally of how many of you pick up the various issues at the roughly 175 locations where you can find The Citizen.
So thanks to the 322 readers who grabbed a Citizen at Weaver Street Market in Hillsborough last week, the 450 or so who regularly pick one up at the WSM in Carrboro and those of you who got your Citizen while visiting University Mall or strolling through downtown. No matter where you and the thousands of your fellow readers find your Citizen, we truly appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a unique local newspaper.
Naturally, we this year couldn’t do this without advertising support. As of mid-November, more than 200 local businesses and organizations chose to get their message out with display ads in The Citizen. A big tip of the hat from all of us for that.
Like many local businesses, we try to do some giving back, and this year we’ve donated thousands of dollars in ads in the paper to more than two dozen community organizations, including The ArtsCenter, The ARC, the Community Dinner and the Orange County Partnership for Young Children.
As for the editorial side of life, in addition to covering the news and publishing features, columns, editorials and what-have-you, we try to make space in these pages for the hundreds of community events, large and small, that come our way.
Sometimes it takes a good bit of shoehorning and juggling just to keep up. To help us do that, thanks in advance for sending all your neatly written calendar items to calendar@carrborocitizen.com
And if you have a news item or something cool for us to cover or note in the paper, please send it along to our new news email – news@carrborocitizen.com
As for me, thanks; I’m doing fine. Each year, we seem to get a little more organized and finely tuned and with the help of the dedicated bunch of newspaper people we’ve assembled, the job is becoming manageable and I’m getting to do a little more journalism, which is why I got on this train in the first place.
It’s still a chore. Each week, I get roughly 500 non-junk emails. I try to read them all and respond if needed, but there’s a lot of triage involved. The rest of the staff is similarly inundated.
So thanks to all of our family and friends who keep reminding us that, despite the slog it can be each week, there’s a greater good in all this. Without their support and their insistence that we not take ourselves too seriously, the job would be impossible.
And for every complete stranger who offered up a kind word or simply blurted out, “I love that paper,†know that on a personal level it is that reservoir of kindness and encouragement that sustains us.
And for that, we’ll never thank you enough.