Publisher’s notebook: the date is set – April 10

We have set a final date of publication: April 10, 2015.  There may be some stories filed that day, but that’s also going to be the last day.

Advertising will continue to run until about April 15, and which time all contracts will have expired or been settled and they will be pulled.

The site will still be up for an indefinite period of time — it is costing us $200 a month to run, so the plug will be pulled as soon as we can manage.

We have been meeting with the Altadena Historical Society about setting up a permanent archive.  Don’t want to steal too much thunder from AHS’s president Jane Brackman, who will tell about the society’s plans soon, but we are looking at keeping the website content both in a permanent physical archive with AHS, and online through their website.  It will include both  AltadenaPoint and its predecessor website Altadenablog in their original forms (sans advertising).  We particularly are glad of this because it preserves the comments that were an important part of our coverage of the Station Fire.

We will be ably assisted in this by Daniel and Brenda Harlow at Harlow Technologies, who are doing the work for free.

We’re hoping in the next few weeks to do some more wrap-up on this website — particularly, the trends were seeing that are both positive and worrisome, as well as the stories we really liked covering.  Stay tuned.