Not sure if I’ll get to do a Vermont Blog Roundup today. I’m scrambling to get a bunch of multimedia content up on our website this week, and I’m getting ready to go to the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in Portland, OR.

Seven Days is a finalist for a few AAN awards this year — we compete in the “circulation under 60,000” category — including one for best website, and one for best web content feature. That’s for the audio slideshow from my missile silo story from last summer.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...