I measured impact by Town Meeting and town election turnout, as well as a ballot full of interested candidates. Stats, sure, but the first sign that a site is really hitting is when your inbox is full of letters to the editor and story requests.

This is ridiculously true. My son ran sound in high school and all that mic-ing people up was apparently very attractive. He was asked to prom as a freshman!

I opened up Grafton Common for the first time in more than a year and it’s now upgraded to a point where I can’t post anything.