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The Examiner: Our History is Your History
Fifty three weeks ago, The Examiner, in making its debut, published a pair of front pages, with a maiden Mount Kisco edition featuring the historic indictment of a town cop and a Pleasantville cover showcasing an item about an unrealized plan to install an upscale eatery in a prized piece of corner real estate.
Needless to say, a lot happens in a year.
Since The Examiner’s launch in September of last year, that cop was pronounced not guilty of manslaughter, that prized piece of real estate was handed to a controversial Dunkin’ Donuts and The Examiner, behind the weight of humbling support from our readership, has been granted the opportunity to bear witness to 365 days in the life of our slice of suburbia.
From budget battles in Bedford schools, to Panther pride in Pleasantville, a group of journalists consisting largely of outsiders has taken on the charge of being the chroniclers of your local history—one week at a time—and has been greeted, by and large, with respect and encouragement.
In our own short history, there has also been news to report. Shortly after adding coverage of Chappaqua in the third quarter of our first year, The Examiner retooled its format, abandoning the original two-edition configuration, and now packs a week of our worlds into a unified paper, totaling 28 or so pages a week.
By summertime, Mount Pleasant coverage was expanded beyond Pleasantville’s village borders, and into the town’s deserving hamlets. Now, as we enter our second year, and print our 53rd issue, The Examiner is, for the first time, publishing 5,000 copies. A year ago, circulation totaled 2,000.
Yes, the year has produced plenty of change, but it has also proven that certain constants persist: small town America, like it has since our founding, desires intense local coverage of its happenings. Happenings that are understandably trivial to outsiders. Happenings that are at the same time the lifeblood of American communities—the fireman’s parade, the little league game, the budget vote, the stuff that, patched together, are what define our neighborhoods, our families, our lives. The stuff we’ve written about and photographed over the past year.
Periodically, The Examiner, after having made critical decisions involving change or expansion, has returned to passages from its opening editorial.
It seems fitting then on this occasion to remind our readers—and ourselves—of the newspaper’s early promise to “to examine...your community’s nooks and crannies,” and to, “unearth the evasive truth.” Not everything we publish, of course, is that high minded. But this platform does provide a place for the voiceless—or at least those who feel voiceless—to turn to, and seek justice.
This week, on our cover, an employee of the Mount Pleasant Water and Sewer Department and the Chappaqua library airs his grievances about alleged age discrimination. The validity of his claim remains unclear. Surely, in being responsible for printing the first chapter of local history, this story will unfold on these pages. And a year from now, as in the case of the indicted Mount Kisco cop, or that prized piece of Pleasantville real estate, the complete story might remain elusive, but we’ll do our best to report as much truth as we can unearth. As we originally promised.
Local newspaper legend, Horace Greeley, once stated: “We cannot afford to reject unexamined any idea which proposes to improve the moral, intellectual, or social condition of mankind.”
In that tradition, in that spirit, trust that we will continue to examine the small news—your news—that is, for us and for you, big news. In less than 60 days, media worldwide will report on news as big as it gets—our country’s presidential election results. It is critical for all of us, of course, to study the candidates.
On these pages, however, be prepared in the coming months for intense coverage of the people who want to represent your state assembly, state senate and congressional districts. If, in an informed way, we are to think global and act local, then there must be the information available to do so intelligently. So we have our role.
We hope you will keep reading.
And we promise to keep writing.
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