-Isms: Views on life in rural America

We begin a new "calendar year" at the office this week.

This new chapter represents the first edition of volume eight.

Where has the time gone?

In 2019, Jenna, Sandy, Travis, Erin and I sat in house at the cedar dining room table, assembling and editing a six-page newspaper that we blanket mailed to every Summerland community.

Now, that little newspaper that could has turned into one of the top publications in the state, or so I'm told. I'm not keeping track or comparing column inches or counting awards. Who has time for that?

This I know for sure: We could not have made it happen without you,...