We celebrate the start of the Lakewood Observer on the 4th of July, usually our 13th issue of the year because after two plus years of studying and working on the LO, we launched on July 4th, 2005. Still It is hard not to celebrate the beginning of a New Year in Lakewood, and the start of another year. Especially when it brings the level of change the current year is bringing to Lakewood. And a new year it is, you can feel the lightening of the community, slowly the conversation is coming back, and equally so the new groups of civic leaders are stepping forward. This is great for Lakewood.
People ask, "What does this mean for the Observer?" Well very little changes here. As we were started by a partnership of residents, businesses, schools, non-profits and City Hall, it will be great to have everyone pulling in the same direction again. Well, at least in the areas we concern ourselves with. Oversight and looking for understanding of the community we all love.
Make 2020 the year you join with this history-making project in helping all of us understand this community better. Through pictures, stories, documents and free and open conversation. Consider becoming one of the "Neighbors Celebrating Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity While Speaking Over The Digital Fence." Sign in on the Deck or submit photos and stories on our home page.
You can pick up the latest issue of the Lakewood Observer at over 200 locations around Lakewood, and maybe even City Hall again. OR
download a copy of it here: http://media.lakewoodobserver.com/issue ... sue_01.pdf
Party On Lakewood!
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