The Christmas card from Evelyn Cassidy came to our house this December, as it always did.

In addition to being the premier weekly newspaper in southern New Jersey, The Gazette has always been the forefront of online news delivey.

For most of us, the fantasy football obsession goes back three decades-plus, to 1989.

One of my personal privileges as a writer has been the annual chronicling of the significant local news events of each year in The Gazette.

In the early 1980s, when I was a kid at Christmastime, it was a treat for us to get in our van and ride out to Folsom.

It will be businesses like the newspaper, and the advertisers on its pages, that bring jobs and the economy back.