Happy New Year.
For the snow lovers among us, it’s been a wonderful week, if you could take the time off and enjoy the snow. Some find it a bit of a rude awakening, cold weather combined with snow that just kept coming. Plus we all know people who have moved here from snowier states who can’t help but express their dismay at the local willingness to close schools and stay home to be safe and make way for the plows to do their jobs.
To begin 2025, the Connection Newspapers, along with the Mount Vernon Gazette and Alexandria Gazette Packet, are planning to publish on a new schedule, twice a month, first and third weeks of the month in most months. We hope to use this potentially cost saving measure to provide more opportunities for digital delivery in the weeks between, bringing news alerts and items of interest via email, website and social media. Sign up for a digital subscription at https://www.connectionnewspapers.com/subscribe/
Not only will you get the link to our digital editions when the print editions come out twice a month, you will also get notice of top stories in between.
Check our Instagram and Facebook stories now. Every day we highlight upcoming events, nonprofits working to make life better for people in need, news, animal rescues, traffic and road work alerts and more.
On Instagram, go to https://www.instagram.com/connectionnewspapers and follow us. Click on our logo to see what we’re highlighting in Instagram Stories each day.
For Facebook, go to https://www.facebook.com/ConnectionNewspapers/
Yes, it is true that we continue to struggle to bring in enough revenue to keep doing what we’re doing. In addition to forever reducing costs, we are also looking for contributions and sponsors to help bridge the gap. The Connection, Alexandria Gazette Packet, Mount Vernon Gazette need your help to keep going.
Newspaper advertising is lagging, leaving our revenue very short. Without getting more help ourselves, we won’t be able to continue to showcase the community. Without help we won’t be able to continue publishing. We hope to research nonprofit status in coming months. We hope to invest in a more robust online presence, possibly saving some print costs. We hope to expand our coverage and reach. But right now we need help just to continue to do what we are doing.
Please extend a portion of your generosity for your community newspapers.
You can mail a check made out to Local Media Connection or Alexandria Gazette Packet or Connection Newspapers or Mount Vernon Gazette, and mail it to 1606 King Street, Alexandria, Va. 22314 (We do not have nonprofit status yet.)
You can donate to our GoFundMe campaign. https://gofund.me/82995c2d
You can always support us by advertising, call Debbie Funk at
debfunk@connectionnewspapers.com