Thanks, everybody, for your patience with the agonizingly slow Seven Days website. Don, my friend and favorite webmaster, has informed me that a new server is arriving on Saturday. That should speed things up a bit. Please let us know if you’re still having issues with our issues.

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...