Thanks again for a fantastic February!

We had a few dozen new contributors pledge their support to East Cobb News, and surpassed January’s reader donation totals.

I am very gratified for all of you who have generously given.

While we didn’t quite get to the $1,000 mark for the month (we came close!), the shortest month of the year revealed the level of support in this community for news and information you can’t get anywhere else.

I am touched by your show of support and honored to provide this community resource to you. My objective is to strive to make it better for you every day.

East Cobb News exists to serve you—the citizens, voters and taxpayers of this community—and the local businesses that advertise with us.

No corporate office somewhere else, no other journalistic establishment, nobody else or no other entity.

That’s what I’ve loved about going truly independent when I launched East Cobb News in 2017. I wanted my hometown, the place where I grew up, to have a news source all its own, one that mixed serious journalism with useful community information.

Now, as we embark on the stretch run of our eighth year, we’ve built up a very healthy audience: Nearly 70,000 unique visitors a month on average, more than 9,000 newsletter subscribers, and thousands more who find us on social media.

We do this every day, because the news doesn’t stop.

Think about that newsletter figure for a moment. Not long ago I read about how my former employer, the AJC, wants to boost its digital subscribers, which currently number around 100,000.

We’ve got a healthy fraction of that same number, just covering this slice of metro Atlanta, of a big company (that I was honored to work for for nearly two decades) serving a major metropolitan area, and with nine-figure resources to boot.

You don’t have to be big to have a big impact on your community. I recently interviewed someone for a forthcoming story who told me excitedly how both she and her husband (they’re both former journalists) love reading East Cobb News.

It’s flattering to hear that, but that’s the Power of Local, serving readers and news consumers in an authentic way.

What East Cobb News does on a shoestring by comparison comes deeply from the heart.

And that’s the value proposition I offer to you in consideration of supporting the work that we do here.

As winter (I truly hope!) is giving way to spring, I’d like to ask for the support of those of you who haven’t contributed to help us March Forward in the month of March.

We’d like to raise $1,500 in reader contributions this month, and I know we can do that. It’s a big goal, but this news site was founded on big dreams, and we’ve been able to do so much more than I initially envisioned.

I want to continue to grow this site and its role in our community and give it a lasting presence for many years!

If what you see here at East Cobb News is of any value to you, please click below to show your support.

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Your contribution powers the work of East Cobb News in serving this community like no one else—with daily stories about local government, schools, public safety, small business, transportation, the arts, community service and more—and grows an engaged audience as a result.

East Cobb News is among dozens of local independent online news sites that have emerged in recent years to offer grassroots news for their communities with an authentic local touch from publishers who are fully invested in everything that goes on there.

We’re also citizens, parents, homeowners, business owners and volunteers like our neighbors. It’s just not where we work, but the place we call home.

Unlike other corporate-0wned outlets, East Cobb News does not charge for reader access. While we’re a for-profit entity, we’re not unlike those who ask readers for their assistance in not just preserving, but strengthening local news.

Nor do we charge for our newsletter—one of the more popular ways readers keep up with East Cobb News—and we invite public comments on all our stories. We’ve got a healthy, vibrant community that comes online to discuss the top headlines of the day, and I’m proud of what’s been built up here.

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

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