Editor’s Column: A weekly in a world of instant news

Being a weekly newspaper in a world of instant information will try your patience. By the time the paper goes to print, a big chunk of the news stories and photos for the week have already appeared on the Internet in one form or another.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. When Highway 13 closed due to yet another horrific accident on Saturday, we shared the CodeRed information on our Facebook and Twitter pages. As…