In This Together

Together in this

In this time of unprecedented world crisis, our community has been drawn together as much as it has been forced to social distance. While we all adapt to a different way of life, we work together to maintain as much normal life as possible — and it is a community effort. By Friday, March 13, our community was hit with a flood of hard news that we tried to reconcile what we heard about coronavirus around the world with what we were then hearing from San Luis Obispo County officials regarding the potential of COVID-19 being right here in our cities.

Every minute seemed to produce news about a canceled event, suspension of school activity, or warning about the presence of a microscopic new visitor threatening our health, safety, livelihoods and lives of those we care about.

The world around us mobilized, taking action to reorganize in defense of our health against coronavirus, resulting in our isolation and social distancing. Not just here, but similar action nationwide and worldwide as COVID-19 stole lives from communities.

During that time, our team of news writers and editors collected valuable links, covered special school board meetings, and County press briefings to bring comprehensive and up-todate information to our readers. We quickly put together what is still one of the most comprehensive news pages dedicated to information about COVID-19 found in any local community in California.

We are so proud of our team’s response — with our senior writer Mark Diaz attending school board meetings, our senior editor Luke Phillips coordinating dozens of news items, and sports editor Connor Allen keeping a thumb on the latest in changes to local sports schedules, with Mike Michaud running print layout. In addition, we had two full-time ad consultants — Dana McGraw and Carmen Kessler — continuing to work with local businesses working to adapt changes to advertising messaging or campaign strategies.

Our publishing and production team pushed forward to produce Paso Robles’ only printed weekly and monthly publications — Paso Robles Press and Paso Robles Magazine — while maintaining the area’s top-ranked online news sources in pasoroblespress.com and atascaderonews.com.

Our online sites have run full speed to keep up with a constant flood of information regarding COVID-19 updates and news releases — with live updates made to our COVID-19 Updates page as they happened.

Like the rest of the business community, coronavirus has forced us to make changes to our staff resources. With an operation of nine fulltime employees, one part-time — Jen Rodman, and two independent contractors — Denise McLean and Jamie Self, we are not immune to the economic impact facing everyone in our community.

We’re so proud of our team, all of whom, despite the impending concerns about job safety, remained committed to bringing 100 percent to the team and the community. We consistently remind our team that each one of them have a hand in our final products. Each one of them have been part of delivering Paso Robles Magazine, Paso Robles Press to our readers. They cover your kids’ achievements, are with you through tough school board and city council meetings, celebrate our community successes and carry the burden of our community challenges.

As members of the Paso Robles Magazine and Paso Robles Press team, they are Paso People — making print products that our community can be proud of. When life resumes, visitors will pick up our magazine and our newspaper and hold the passion and presence of our community spirit we share through the good times and the tough times.

We are going to get through this. We have no blueprint specific to this pandemic, but we have a blueprint for facing challenges. We do this together.

In response to the crisis we face, our daily presence at pasoroblespress.com is here to keep you informed and connected. Visit us for the most up-to-date coverage and changing business information. When looking for your local Paso Robles news, remember to look for The Press — which has been here through thick and thin for Paso Robles since 1889. Nic & Hayley Mattson Thank you for being #pasostrong

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