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closeHere comes the Sun - or more precisely, The Sun News. And I couldn't be happier.
When I came back to Warner Robins nearly three years ago to take the reins of the Houston Peach, I had a dream of producing the kind of local newspaper this community wants and deserves.
After all, I had started in this business 35 years ago working for one of the deans of community journalism, Foy Evans, founder and publisher of The Daily Sun from the earliest days of the City by the Base.
I saw a serendipitous symmetry in being able to come back "home" and revitalize that tradition of serving the reading public with a strong local newspaper.
Now, under a new publisher with a strong background and passion for community journalism, we are being given a fresh opportunity to do what I think newspapers do best: local news.
On Wednesday, July 2, we will be launching a new weekly newspaper to serve readers and advertisers in Houston and Peach counties.
The Sun News will combine the best features of the Houston Peach and the weekly Buyers' Guide, plus more. It will be home-delivered to Telegraph subscribers in Houston and Peach counties with their Wednesday newspaper, just as the Houston Peach section has been inserted into The Telegraph on Saturdays. Next Saturday will be the last edition of the Houston Peach.
The weekly Sun News will also be delivered free to residents throughout the two counties who do not subscribe to the daily Telegraph, much as the Buyers' Guide has for years.
The Sun News will be all local, all the time. It will feature the people and events of your community - you and your neighbors, your children's schools and sports activities, your local businesses, your churches and civic clubs.
We will continue the local columnists and features currently in the Houston Peach - Alline Kent, Willie Chance, Marsha Buzzell, the 10 Questions profiles, Biz Buzz and Amen Corner, to name a few.
And from the Buyers' Guide we're picking up David Cranshaw's My Turn column and the popular SpeakOut, which gives you and your neighbors a chance to vent about what you're most concerned about in your neck of the woods.
The Sun News will open its pages to a broad range of voices from the community, inviting letters and columns from community leaders and others who have something useful to say about what's happening in our hometowns. Plus we're coming up with some fun and interesting features that we hope will brighten your day.
We intend to make the Sun News the place you'll turn to each week to learn more about the people and events that shape our community and make it an interesting place to live.
I've heard from a lot of readers who say they miss the local news coverage the Sun provided, who've told me, "We want our own paper." Well, I'm excited about this new opportunity. Now if you will step up and support this effort, I promise to bring you the best local newspaper I know how.
Come the morning of July 2, together we can welcome a new Sun rise.
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