Letter from the Publisher: Shop Local

Dear Readers,

Shop Local—you hear that a lot. Why is this important? Why not just go for a low price online?

Because those dollars spent online leave the community—forever. A dollar spent on Amazon is a dollar

sent to Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. That dollar isn’t going to come back here. It will go on to a

seller and supplier somewhere else in the country—or somewhere else outside the country. Meanwhile

a store owner right here in the community has one less dollar to pay his employees, one less dollar to

spend locally or donate to a local charity. So please, Shop Local. It will make our community that much

stronger.

Patrick J. Wood

Publisher