Jill's Journal: Come celebrate with us!

The excitement has been brewing here at the Journal office over the last few weeks. Friday, you see, was the start of our eighth year of publishing your local news source and shopper, the Brandon Valley Journal and the Brandon Valley Trader.

And that’s the very reason for the complimentary 24-page issue that’s in your hands. If you’re a print or online subscriber, thank you for choosing us. If you pick us up on the newsstands, we’re happy that you’re doing that, too. But if you’ve never given us a read, here’s your chance. We hope that you like what you see, and please know, it’s a representation of what you’ll receive in your locally-focused community weekly newspaper week in and week out.

From the very beginning, our mantra has been “Local News. Local Sports. Local Every Issue,” and our focus has not changed from Volume 1, Issue 1 to now.

We are here for you 52 weeks of the year, and you can read all about the place you call “home,” about the people you call “friend” and the events and topics that are important to you.

Here’s the deal: if it’s important to you, it’s important to us.

And so, we’re celebrating this Thursday and Friday with new subscriber specials, deals for current subscribers, and of course, birthday cake, because you can’t – or you shouldn’t – have a birthday party without cake. 

Our gift to new subscribers who choose to have the Journal delivered in your mailbox each week, is free online access. To those who are already plucking us out of the mailbox each week, please stop by to enjoy some cake and conversation, trinkets and all can register for door prizes.

As we like to say this time of year, “You can have your cake and read it, too!”