The Independent Blog

Posted by The Independent on February 12th, 2008 in Blogs, Features, Newsroom

There’s a lot going on inside the newsroom today. During the morning budget meeting where we discuss upcoming stories and their various statuses, it came over the scanner that Senior High had to evacuate students due to an electrical fire in an elevator. Off went our esteemed photographer, Barrett to try and catch a good shot of the kids outside shivering in the cold

City Council tonight has a few important topics going on including discussion on the Broadwell Underpass idea and a roundabout installation on Capital Ave. At the end of the meeting, Councilwoman Joyce Haase will try to get a vote on whether to implement a smoking ban in Grand Island. Watch our front page online for an update on that after the meeting tonight.

We have some exciting things in the pipeline regarding blogs. George Ayoub is working on starting a video blog that should be a lot of fun to produce and our photographers are working on a blog that will showcase their work. I can’t wait to bookmark that one! We also would like to start adding links to local Grand Island/Hall County bloggers. We will put a link to your blog at grandislandblogs.com and throw some traffic your way. We are looking for themed blogs so if you run a blog about being a parent, or scrapbooking, or auto restoration etc. Let us know and we’ll check it out and link it up!