BRATTLEBORO — Regular readers will notice that this issue of The Commons is demonstrably thinner than the papers we have been publishing for the last couple of months.
Over the past few editions, we have been blessed with a surge of advertising, but for whatever reason - or maybe for no reason at all - our advertising this week has fallen significantly short of the mark.
Consequently, many of the features you've come to enjoy - and certainly many of the stories we had planned for this issue - do not appear in the paper this week. Given that we had begun to implement our vision of a regular, standalone arts section, we find ourselves crestfallen at this turn of events.
In the meantime, we'll let you know when you can visit our website, www.commonsnews.org, for additional content. While we will always prefer to publish our hard work on good old newsprint, we can't print pages without the revenue to pay the bills. Publishing online will give us more options and will make difficult choices a little less painful to those of us who love the news.
All we can do is to continue doing our best, and to say that we are prepared to continue growing, to continue finding new and creative ways to chronicle life in southern Vermont, and to keep giving Windham County as much newspaper as it is willing to support.
Or as little.