SANATOGA PA – The Sanatoga Post “story count” – the number of articles contained within its online archives – took a considerable jump during the weekend (March 12 and 13, 2011), due primarily to changes being made in other parts of The Post Publications network.
Managing Editor Joe Zlomek
When its daily headlines newsletter was delivered (free, of course) to Post subscribers on Friday morning (March 11), the Sanatoga PA edition contained 3,482 articles published since Aug. 25, 2008. By Sunday night (March 13), the archives had swelled to 3,569 articles. That’s an increase of 87 stories – or about 17 days’ worth of publication – in fewer than three days … which deserves a bit of explanation.
The same “look and feel” and, more importantly, improved features introduced last November (2010) in The Sanatoga Post are now being created for its companion news services east and west of Lower Pottsgrove Township: The Limerick (PA) Post and The Pottstown Post. With luck, the revamped Pottstown and Limerick editions will launch in a few weeks.
The Main Street Post, our business-news-only publication, is being similarly revised, and we are pleased to announce here that two other Post editions are in the planning stages. If and when they launch – such things take time and capital – the network would encompass a total of six publishing units.
As part of this growth, local news content created by Post Managing Editor Joe Zlomek since 1998 is being moved from other websites to the Sanatoga, Limerick and Pottstown editions as appropriate.
These transfers don’t have an immediate impact on readers, but they do add greater historical depth and context to much of the news covered here daily. Probably to no one’s surprise, some problems that pestered our coverage areas 13 years ago still linger today. For readers searching our archives on specific topics – Pottsgrove School District budget battles of years past, for example – the additional stories may help to enhance understanding of those problems.
Our weekend work represents just the first wave of transfers. Ultimately, we anticipate adding several hundred more back-dated stories across all three publications.
The Post is fortunate to be working with extremely talented local people and businesses as it grows. Among them is Convergent Cloud Solutions, a Pottstown-based company headed by France Krazalkovich. His firm is modifying some of the behind-the-scenes coding that will make our relaunched websites jump through hoops to meet readers’ needs.
We’ll keep you informed of developments on this end as they occur. Until then, as always, we thank you for reading The Post.
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