FROM THE PUBLISHER

We get a lot of phone calls each week — people wanting to subscribe, change their address, advertise, suggest story ideas or simply shoot the breeze. It’s an encouraging sign of a community that’s engaged with its newspaper. But there’s one call in particular that has stood out to me since we bought the Plaindealer four months ago.

The woman on the other end of the phone asked for us to remove a wedding anniversary date from the pages of the newspaper.

For many years, the...