Today we are celebrating 10 years of reporting Edgewater news through the Edgewater Echo! Lots of things have changed in our Edgewater community over the last ten years. An abandoned King Soopers became the Edgewater Public Market. The City of Edgewater sales tax base was strengthened by local breweries and cannabis dispensaries. We mourned as we lost community leaders and residents who had served Edgewater for years. We survived debates about goats, dogs, and new construction.
As we launched ten years ago, here’s how we described our hopes for the Edgewater Echo:
Exciting things are happening in Edgewater and we want to spread these good news stories. Edgewater Echo will feature stories from our local schools, upcoming events and business happenings. Our hope is to even feature local news stories written by students at our neighborhood schools. Edgewater Echo will also feature a community calendar of upcoming events in Edgewater.
The Edgewater community has a strong history of local newspapers though none exist today. We chose the name “Edgewater Echo” based on an early newspaper of the same name from the 1920’s. The tagline of the earlier Edgewater Echo was “Printer’s ink, though dark, is the light of the world.”
Our hope is that the Edgewater Echo will strengthen our community through providing good news stories of what is happening around our great city.
Our first story in the Edgewater Echo was a very short spotlight on the winning record of the Jefferson High School football team, which is pretty on-brand for our passions in the community. Here’s to ten more years telling the stories of our community!
Joel has been a resident of Edgewater, Colorado with his family since 2012. He is the Executive Director of local education nonprofit Edgewater Collective and Editor of the Edgewater Echo.
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