Good grief! How did that happen so fast?
We put this week’s paper together simultaneously with the approach of Christmas, at times with a skeleton holiday crew, and have attempted to keep our minds on our work with all the distractions.
If you are reading this, we succeeded, and now we stop in the quiet to contemplate the quick passage of 2024, from the Jan. 4 issue that opened the year to this issue that ends it … except for the days leading to Jan. 1, 2025, which will be reported in our first paper of the new year.
As a year begins, we assemble our energies, mark the Thursdays on our calendars 1 to 52 (one paper each week), and try to plan for what we know lies ahead.
Surprises always happen along the way and that certainty keeps the newsgathering team alert.
Week by week, month by month, we added to another year of publication of the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal, established in 1937 by a merger of the much older Gloucester Gazette and Mathews Journal.
We are so grateful to our...