Just a quick note to say I am really appreciating the efforts New England Times is going to in order to ensure voters are properly informed this election. With the loss of our local paper, and the demise of our local radio stations to basically unlistenable, I often feel like we are abandoned as a community. It’s so important that we know what is going on and I hate Facebook. Obviously the Times can’t be everywhere, and TV news covers even less, so there will still be a fairly big information gap. I hope there will be some discussion from local candidates during the election about the state of local media and the detrimental impact it has on places like Inverell.