I’ll begin my column this week with a sincere apology to all of our subscribers. We have received an abundance of calls and visits regarding last week’s delivery of the Jackson County Advocate. The paper was delivered on-time to area post offices on Wednesday, October 23 for delivery on Thursday, October 24, just as it usually is. Once the papers left our possession, it is unclear what happened.

Since taking ownership of the Advocate in 2012, we have never missed a printing deadline, and we work diligently to complete the paper on time each week. I can assure you we won’t in the future. We will do our best to work with the post office to ensure timely deliveries (as this is not the first time we have had a widespread miss).

We work hard to deliver a product each week that we can be proud of, and frankly, there’s nothing to be proud of if no one is reading what we wrote. We ask for your patience, and cross our fingers that this will be remedied soon.

In the meantime, if you do not receive a paper for whatever reason on your normal delivery day, please feel free to stop by our office during our normal business hours to grab a copy. I’d hate for more in our community to not have their news that they have come to rely on since 1953.