BLACK HAWK — Tonight I write my column a bit later than usual, but it’s been that kind of week. Last week, I was fortunate to travel and see family, including both of my parents and their spouses. And my sister and her husband. As an extra added bonus, I got to spend an entire week with my daughter and grandchild. We even made it to the aquarium and beach, among other day trips. I was able to visit and have coffee with a friend that used to live in Colorado. What a beautiful adventure.
Despite time off, I worked almost all of my hours and only had to take half a day of vacation. What a blessing. Also a reminder that I need to schedule my downtime to actually be downtime. I need my vacation to actually be a vacation.
Coming home late Sunday night, my plane was delayed, and we got in well past the scheduled hour. It didn’t matter: Monday I got up and went to work early, stayed in town late and even attended most of the Board of Trustees meeting. I was lucky enough to meet two of our new staff members on Monday.
So much is done online, but until you speak to a person face-to-face, it’s hard to understand who they are and what they bring to the table. I can assure you both of them bring a lot! There are very amazing things happening at Mountain Vale Media.
I’d like you to welcome Kaylee Harter, our new managing editor for Caribou Current, our arts and culture monthly. Kaylee joins us from her recent position at Denver 7. Kaylee brings a plethora of knowledge to her position, has already submitted tons of new ideas, and the entire team is exceptionally excited to have her on board. Kaylee will work primarily in our Boulder office, but will also attend our monthly in-person meetings in Nederland. Look for exciting new ideas happening in the next few months as we near our one year anniversary of this arts and culture publication.
The second person I’d like to introduce is Jessie Bowman. Jessie comes to us with plenty of small town news experience, working at the Durango Herald. Jessie will be our lead reporter covering Nederland government, community features, environmental issues, and more. She’s already started digging into current issues of the community, including the Eldora purchase, the Big Springs egress, and the proposed budget for the Town of Nederland. She will be sharing all of this with you, our readers, on a regular basis.
Our third new staff member is Staci McNeal. Staci joins us part-time and brings a ton of experience in HR, marketing and social media, and record-keeping. We are super excited to welcome Staci on board.
All of these changes are positive ones. The catapult that has triggered these transformations has been a long time coming, and we have a lot more exciting news for you.
In the next few months, you will see a lot of shifting within our organization. You will see exciting new developments on our website, interesting new ideas in our podcasts, expanded social media experiences, and much more!
Our company is going through a complete evaluation to figure out what is working well, what we need to improve, and even what we need to let go of. We hope you will hang in with us as we go through this with us, share your own thoughts throughout the process, and make sure we are giving you, our readers, the very best news we can.
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