We have a new (former) printer, Lincoln County Publishing Company, in case you didn’t read the printed article or the featured story online.

Not much will change in the immediate future as far as layout, deadlines and prices are concerned, but it is a change. The newspaper business needs to change in order to keep up with the times.

We enjoyed a long and fine run with the Times Record and Alliance Press but it is nice to be back working with familiar faces – The Lincoln County News crew  – and to work with a local business. We have had some scrapes in the past but in my nearly 33 years here, everything has worked out.

Chris and his wife, Paula, are hard workers and, like Chris’s dad, Sam, are longtime newspaper people. I remember Sam and Mary Brewer conversing several times in Mary’s office or at a Maine Press or New England Press Association convention. Glad I knew them both. Chris, Paula and I have also chatted about the newspaper business several times, usually near a basketball court or on the telephone. I’ve come to know LCN’s editor J.W. Oliver over the past decade. He and I were fellow Maine Press Association board members until I “opted out” of the board a few years ago after serving about three terms. J.W. is now the president of the MPA board, which now includes our operations manager/sales rep Sarah Morley (as well as Pen Bay Pilot editorial director Lynda Clancy). And last, but not least, our former Wiscasset reporter Charlotte Boynton has been working at LCN for the past several years. Not sure if I will still be writing for a newspaper into my 80s like she is. She is amazing.

Yes, Mr. Bowie, time may change me but you can’t trace time.