Early-to-mid November always reminds me of a couple of things:
That the weather can turn wintry in a hurry, as is in the weather forecast for early this week.
And that I do try to take a bit of time on the 12th day of the month to mark another trip around the sun.
My birthday is coming up on Wednesday, and without telling you how many of those trips I’ve logged (I stopped counting at 29!), it’ll be a busy day here on our local news front.
We have Cobb commissioners meetings that day, Cobb school board meetings the next day and a number of other significant stories in the works, as we continue to stay on top of some very newsworthy events.
In the last three months, our traffic has picked up tremendously, and November figures to be the same. There’s been a lot going on in the news, to be sure, but our readers also are letting us know how much they value from what they get.
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