THE MORNING RUN: Signs of aging

You know you’re getting old when the majority of your conversations consist of asking people to repeat themselves or simply smiling and nodding because you’re tired of asking people to repeat themselves.

Letter from the Publisher: Diane Simmons

Summer solstice is here! The following is reprinted from Valley News and Views, our Drayton sister newspaper. Many people anxiously await the first day of summer and look forward to summer activities.

I hear voices

By Bob Simmons, CEO, Simmons Multimedia Last week I left you while I was standing at the head of the scattering garden in the Springfield, Massachusetts, cemetery where my mom’s (Mum-z’s) ashes were scattered last fall, only to have my private moment of reflection interrupted by the gentleman from...

Letter from the Editor: Hilary Nowatski

As I sat down to pen my weekly column, I took a deep breath in and a deep breath out. I just wrapped up one of the busiest weeks I’ve had in a long time and am still trying to decompress a bit! It was an overwhelming week that I just wrapped up, but it was all certainly worth it.

Readers see newspapers as “all of the above”

With the state primary season concluded, the forms of messaging statewide candidates used leading up to June 11 is curious.

THE MORNING RUN: Branding and a trip to TRNP

By Sara Goodman I guess it’s official that Matt Mitzel has flown the coop. He kept threatening to do it, and I kept hoping it would happen, but now that it has, I feel a little let down.

Why can’t I have a normal vacation?

By Bob Simmons, CEO Simmons Multimedia A few weeks back, you’ll recall I was setting out on a solo road trip to a broadcaster’s convention in upstate New York.

Letter from the Publisher

As has been too common lately, I’m under a blanket in a sweatshirt in front of the fireplace penning this letter to you. That’s fine in the winter, but it’s June.

Letter from the Editor

I’m having a very, VERY busy week but an exciting one for sure. I was asked last minute by Frost Fire to assist as an instructor for their youth ENCORE Arts Camp! I was able to get enough of my regular work done over the weekend to free up some time to teach art this week.

Letter from the Publisher

June is struggling to warm up, but we did have a summery day at the lake last weekend. Cake Wars was a big hit and may very well become an annual event.