The Locust Fork News-Journal Approaches Five Years in Business

I wish I could figure out a way to have a blues tune playing on the screen while you are reading this post, but then, that would just be a distraction anyway. One of these days I’m going to get around to finishing that blues song I started working on many years ago called The Alabama Power Blues.

I woke up Sunday morning,
and the power was off again…

Every time this happens, it plays havoc with the Charter cable Internet connection, even with a TrippLite installed to prevent the modem and router and computers from going off during a power outage.

It also places unnecessary wear and tear on the hard drives of all three of the computers we have online over here that it takes to produce and maintain this Website.

To make matters worse, on March 13, YouTube will no longer support the operating system or Web browser on this Apple laptop, which means in a couple of weeks, I will no longer be able to access or post YouTube videos on this site — unless we figure out a way to raise enough money to buy a new computer.

Once the power came back on this morning, I cranked up the coffee pot and placed an ad on the free online classified site Craigslist.org seeking to buy a used or refurbished MacBook Pro computer. This is going to be an essential tool to accomplish the planned upgrades to this site and to ramp up our news operation in the months ahead.

Before I ask for your contribution, let me give you, our faithful readers, an update of where we are.

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