Thursday marks the beginning of a new season: spring. Judging by the warm jackets and gloves we still have to put on before bracing the subfreezing temperatures, the weather hasn’t exactly gotten the memo.
However, things are changing below the surface and, although we might not recognize it right away, within a few weeks we’ll be acclimated to the comfortable temperatures on our walks to class and enjoying everything the Point has to offer.
The same thing is happening here at The Mirror.
This week’s issue marks the beginning of the new tenure of Mirror staffers.
When you open the paper on Wednesday afternoon, not much is going to look different; Crime Beat will have its place on page four, WVOF will be giving you an exclusive look at what’s to come for the week and the same faces will be smiling up at you in 4×5.
However, the inner workings of The Mirror have changed and will continue to change through the next year.
We are learning to work together as a new staff and coping with the nearly crippling loss of our former editors (there were seven of them), who were in many ways wiser and more comfortable in their positions.
Your new editorial board is comprised of a ragtag bunch: one former sports editor, a chief copy editor and the associate news editor.
We might be new to the job, but we’re also ready to use the skills we’ve acquired here to make our former editors proud.
We are prepared to bring a new feel and look to The Mirror, so it’s appropriate that this dawning of a new age coincides with the beginning of spring.
Much like how Loan, Luigi and Danica left their marks on The Mirror over the last year, we are excited to bring our own personalities, talents and expertise into the upcoming year of issues.
Winter is silently morphing into spring, and so too will The Mirror slowly change and become imprinted with the three of us, like it has with the dozens of editors that have come before us.
We are looking forward to being the voice of Fairfield news and the next year of The Mirror.
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