Here I sit the night before our deadline madly writing and hoping we have enough content for the first edition of The Pershing Post in print. I’m worried about how we’ll pay for this. Worried about whether we’ll make our deadline tomorrow afternoon. Worried about what stories we’ll have for next week.
And now tears are running down my face all over the keyboard because I just read Robert’s story about your football team and their big win, and I’m just overcome with how much I love this tilting at windmills we’re doing as we slowly bring printed newspapers back to our rural communities.
It’s a great honor to have the kind of support you all have given us so far and we hope to continue to earn your trust as we work with you to bring you all the local, community news we can.
Late in the year of 2018 people in Fallon where I grew up and still live, were complaining about the local newspaper being bought by a corporation, staff being laid off, the local office being closed, and the lack of local news in what had been a community institution for over 100 years. I had been listening to, and participating in, this great community kvetching when one day a crazy idea crept into my head that maybe we all should just start our own local, community newspaper.
Asking around, there appeared to be a great deal of support for the idea, so with the help of a talented friend who taught me more about technology than I ever thought possible, we launched The Fallon Post, online on January 1, 2019. There never was any intent to print, but under some very forceful pressure and encouragement, we launched our first printed weekly paper on November 6, 2020. And here we are.
Seven weeks ago, we got our friend Robert, in Fernley, in print with his Fernley Reporter – an online paper he’s dabbled in since 2015. And the community loves it, is super supportive, and we are continuing to grow over there.
We’ve wanted to get this Pershing County paper going for quite a while and probably prematurely launched The Pershing Post online earlier this year. That online paper will now be updated on a weekly basis to parallel the printed paper and you all can have your choice of online or print. Or both!
We’re really excited to get to do this and hope you’ll send news and tips and ideas. We hope you’ll write Letters to the Editor and even a local column if you’re so inclined. Send us your wedding announcements, birth notices, all the local happenings. We want this to be YOUR paper – we encourage you to contribute any way you can to help us build this into a strong, permanent fixture in your community.
Thank you for this opportunity. And while we get to work on edition number two, we’ll be right here…
…Keeping you Posted.
Rachel
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