Help Us Spread The News - Editorial
Last week, we published an article in which the advocates for overturning the town’s ban on marijuana expressed interest in bringing the petition back before Town Meeting yet again this summer.
The reason? They believe that they did not do enough to get their supporters out to vote at Town Meeting earlier this month. One of the proponents, Steven P. Strojny, said that one of the first things he noticed while scrolling social media the morning after the ban was upheld was that residents were saying they were not aware the issue of marijuana was going before the town.
This baffles us. The issue of marijuana was on the front page regularly of The Bourne Enterprise—typically smack-dab in the middle—going back at least five weeks.
Our regular readers are well in the know; the ongoing dialogue in our paper is evidence of as much. From where we stand, marijuana has been the talk of the town for over a month.
But we also understand that those who do not subscribe to our weekly paper may not be so in the loop. Even so, it only takes a glance down at the front page while at your local convenience store to notice the headlines of that week. And if you are an e-reader, it is even easier to check our Facebook page—at no cost.
We work hard here at the Enterprise to provide the community with the most important news of the week in the most transparent and understandable fashion possible. But without real word-of-mouth conversations (or virtual ones in the comment section), we might as well be screaming into the void. And we don’t want to do that; we want to engage and inform Bourne’s residents.
So we ask our readers to help us. Talk to your neighbors, share articles on Facebook and keep your family up to date on the goings-on of the week. The Upper Cape is fortunate to have four newspapers dedicated to covering each of its four towns. Across the country local journalism is dying, but here on the Upper Cape it is thriving. And what a shame it would be to see those efforts go unnoticed.