Letter from the Publisher:

Welcome to the last weekend of August, another month causing me to ask if it really even happened! The many back-to-school pictures posted on social media and printed in this newspaper are reminders of the reality: Summer has left the building , kind of like Elvis, who left the building permanently on Aug. 16, 1977. That’s the year I graduated from high school, a mere 49 years ago. Will my five cl…