Welcome to the latest edition of The Wanderer! As with pretty much everything these days, The Wanderer is treading new ground and sailing uncharted seas in response to our ever-changing world. The first thing we’d like to do is congratulate everyone on their proactive response to our new world challenge. What we do today isn’t just about us – although not getting sick would be a bonus – it’s about helping others. We hope our actions will save lives and keep our system from getting overloaded. Good for you!
By now you have been flooded with the standard COVID-19 updates telling you how each and every one of the dozens of businesses you have contact with will assist in your staying healthy. With that in mind, we will keep our response short and to the point. First and foremost for our readers, The Wanderer is available online. Many of our readers already know this as we have almost twice as many people who download each week’s edition as we print copies; for this, we thank you and the trees thank you! If you haven’t already checked out the online edition, you can see them at www.wanderer.com – just click on “read the full edition.” On our website, there is a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of our paper as well as a Page Flip version, should you really enjoy flipping virtual pages, which is really cool. We also offer a mobile edition through The Wanderer app, which allows you to read each week’s edition on your iPad or iPhone. To find this visit the Apple App Store and search for ‘Wanderer’ or click on the link on our web page.
For the next few weeks, we are increasing our direct mailings of The Wanderer throughout the TriTown. While costly, we hope that this change helps keep folks at home by bringing the news to them directly. This shift also helps our advertisers, many of whom are small businesses struggling to make it through these limited times. If your business is looking to stay in touch, now is a great time to advertise. Get in touch so we can help you get the word out.
There are many other ways you can keep yourself and others safe while still supporting local business. Many of the restaurants in our area are offering take-out or delivery, now that sit-down service has been curtailed. You can also support small businesses by buying gift certificates.
While some of us, who have introverted tendencies, have been practicing for this pretty much all our lives, some folks are very social and need to stay in touch. Use this time to reach out by phone, email, and message. By doing this, you are supporting your friends and growing relationships in ways you may never have done during a busy schedule.
Should you need to get in touch with our office you can do so by emailing office@wanderer.com or calling 508-758-9055 (please leave a message if we are not in and we will get back in touch as soon as we can). As always, you can manage any advertisements on our website, wanderer.com, and manage bills and payments from the convenience of your computer.
We would like to transition this period of isolation from a time when everyone is telling you what you can’t do, to showing you what you can do. With that in mind, we invite everyone to share their stories, photos, and ideas with us so we can share them with our community. We always reflect on simpler times when we had time to sit back and read and relax; well, that time is now. We will do our best to keep you informed, entertained and our local businesses strong during these changing times. We hope that one day we will look back on this time fondly as the time when we all acted together, to be separate for the common good.