Dear Readers,

We have launched a new Web site. We are proud of it and hope that you will visit soon.

You will find a site with much more content that is more organized and illustrated than our previous Web site. It is our intent to put almost all the content of our print edition up on this new Web site.

Whatever we miss you can find in a new and improved replica edition — or e-edition — of the ink-on-paper edition of The Enquirer-Journal.

While we will be giving you a lot more on this site, the most exciting part of the new www.enquirerjournal.com is its interactivity.

This site will allow our registered users to link up with buddies, post your own blogs, photos and stories. The best part of all is the community page.

Named Your Enquirer-Journal — or Your Waxhaw Exchange or Your Indian Trail Trader for our weeklies — these pages are yours to use to communicate with your neighbors and friends. There is a calendar where community groups, nonprofits and schools can post notices of their meetings or fundraisers to spread the word. They can also post their own accounts of their activities and achievements.

Or you can post photos or videos that you want to share with the community, whether they are photos from your family vacation or reunion to pictures from community events. You can post stories about issues and events that are important to you and your neighbors, things that might not have been newsworthy enough to draw the attention of our staff. It is Your Enquirer-Journal and it will be what you make it.

Use it. Encourage your friends and neighbors to use it. If you do, it can be an important tool for communicating within the county’s 14 municipalities. or within groups of neighbors united by interests or activities.

You can also comment on the community, or the job we are doing both in a Twitter-like message service or in blogs that readers can set up for themselves.

This page belongs to the community and we will not edit the comments. That doesn’t mean we won’t pay attention. We will keep an eye out for abuses or offensive postings and urge you to use our “Report Abuse” feature which will help alert us to content you don’t like.

We may also find things on the community pages that we do like and we may pick them up for use in our ink-on-paper edition as well as on the other Web sites.

Please take the time to explore our Web site and use some of its new features, then tell us what you think.

Stan Hojnacki

Managing Editor