I’m deeply honored to be your editor and publisher at East Cobb News! I greatly appreciate your readership as we turn the calendar to 2025. Editor's Note: Inviting our readers to join the 1500 Club!

As a new year unfolds, we are launching a renewed effort to ask readers for their financial support of this community news resource.

We’re calling it the 1500 Club and are asking 1500 of you to sign up to becoming recurring monthly donors of East Cobb News.

That’s a little more than 15 percent of the more than 9,300 newsletter subscribers who get the East Cobb News Digest every week.

East Cobb News content will always be free to readers—unlike other news outlets, we don’t have a paywall. We want this to be accessible for anybody, but we do ask for your support if you feel this of special value to you.

We’d like to suggest a monthly payment of $6—you can contribute more if you like, or at whatever amount of your choosing.

We have a safe, secure online payment system called Press Patron via Stripe that makes it easy to donate, and to keep track of your account.

Consider becoming a regular supporter!

Press Patron enables local news publishers like me to ask readers like you for support. Many local news outlets, from the more traditional to the likes of East Cobb News, generate revenues from multiple sources to build sustaining businesses.

Your donations will power our expanding coverage of news in East Cobb, the place we call home, and that’s a very busy place!

There’s so much more that we want to cover for you, and in the next couple of months we’d like to have at least 1500 of you sign up to become continuing supporters.

It’s similar to a pledge drive for public radio, but for East Cobb’s only daily, all-online news source.

I’ve explained more about the 1500 Club in the video, and will be sharing more details about this initiative in the coming weeks.

Will you be among the 1500? Consider starting your financial support today, so we can keep giving you the local news that you love! Thanks East Cobb!