Welcome to the third year of The Murfreesboro Post.
To us at the Post it seems like just last week we were scrambling around on a warmish October morning trying to get 45,000 copies of the paper headed in the right direction.
As with any new endeavor, it was a challenge. Despite repeated tests, we had production problems.
But, the baby was birthed.
I lack the skills as a writer to explain how gratifying the response from the community was then and continues to be today. Despite my many years in the newspaper business and in this community, I could not have imagined a tenth of the positive feedback we have received.
Now, we’re looking for more feedback.
We request your input in a survey we are currently conducting for Post readers. The survey is simple and quick. You can take it online at murfreesboropost.com or in print on Page 16. Mail the print versions to The Post, P.O. Box 10008, Murfreesboro, 37129 or drop it by our office at Suite 140, Broadmor (behind the First Bank on Memorial).
Since we launched The Post we have made a number of changes, most as a result from community suggestions, but we now feel it is time to take a more comprehensive determination of how we can better service this community.
Survey respondents who give us contact information will be eligible for drawings for five $100-value prizes. No information collected with be sold, transferred or misused in any way.
Let us know what you think.
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About a month after fall showed up on the calendar, it showed up in our lives.
Thursday’s much needed rain (are we ever going to get caught up?) pushed the mercury down and blocked the sky, producing a chilly Friday morning.
Stopping by the Farmers’ Market on the way to the office to record available produce prices, I quickly determined I was a tad undressed for the morning even wearing a long-sleeve dress shirt and suit coat.
By the time I left 15-20 minutes later, my toes were cold and my bones a bit chilled.
It may be time to move to the other side of the closet away from the summer clothes.
With a bright sun Friday afternoon warming temperatures to just about perfect, I figure Friday night’s high school football games were probably pretty close to Norman Rockwell painting quality.
Even though I’m a hot weather guy, I can’t help but get excited when fall creeps into our landscape.
Driving over to McMinnville to visit my mom last Sunday, I noticed a definite fall color tint to the beautiful scenery between Murfreesboro and Woodbury where slight changes in elevation provide vistas that can literally take your breath.
A crimson/red hue touched the tops of many trees along John Bragg Highway on the way to Woodbury. Running along the nice highway on a bright, sunny day with such beauty around just sucked stress right out of me.
The next big event will be our first killing frost or the changing of leaves’ colors. We are already past due on a killing frost, but I don’t think most folk are complaining, well except when they figure out they are going to have to mow their lawn one more time.
The frost and the leaf change both bring dramatic redecorating of our community, and both are beautiful in their own way.
I will note again, no place is prettier in the fall than maple-lined Main Street, Murfreesboro.
So, as in so many other areas of our lives, change is coming and soon.
That change, of course, is one of the many reasons this is such a great place to live.
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And, speaking of fall, if you like seasonal fun and Halloween activities, you should be one happy, jumping-around-with-delight person in the new couple of weeks.
I’m not going to say we couldn’t have nay more Halloween-related activities because every year we have more. We have coverage on such events throughout today’s paper and even more online at mufreesboropost.com.
Suffice it to say, at least for children we ought to be able to treat them down to the core of their trickin’ little hearts.
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