As you have seen in recent weeks, The Cullman Times has committed itself to bringing you the most up-to-date coverage on the coronavirus pandemic and how our community is surviving and coming together to get through this unprecedented time. Our staff has been full throttle trying to look at every angle of the pandemic’s effect in our community.

The Cullman Times, as a business and as your neighbor, has provided constant coverage of the COVID-19 effects on our local community as well as providing information on how to stay healthy at home, who is stepping up in our community to provide us essentials, where and how to get assistance if you need it — and we’ve made it all for free online as we realize the importance of this information for our community during this uncertain time.

What is certain is that this newspaper is committed to keeping our community informed.

The Times, however, has not been immune to the hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and we are having to make our own operational changes to survive as well. 

The sudden loss of ad revenue has been detrimental to our small business and we are having to take steps to reduce some of our costs to continue to provide you this coverage as we have been. 

The Cullman Times will be reducing and changing our print publication days to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, beginning next week.

Although we are eliminating one print publication day, we will continue to have relevant new stories of interest online every day of the week in a timely fashion. All coronavirus-related stories will also continue to be free for online readers.

In our community’s time of need, we are continuing to step up to provide that critical information while our future is uncertain as well. We have a landing page at https://www.cullmantimes.com/covid-19/ with the latest local, state and national reporting on the topic. We are posting all COVID-19 news and items as NEWS ALERT, which provides access without charge to non-subscribers, too. Where public safety is involved, we wish to remove barriers.

We hope that you find this information vital to you and we think you have been as we have seen substantial increases in our web traffic over the last few weeks. We ask that you recognize the value of community journalism and support the work of your neighbors at The Cullman Times. Our 30+ employees, who live, shop and pay taxes here, are dedicated to bringing you the news of our community.

We thank our subscribers and advertisers for providing their continued support and recognizing the vital mission this newspaper serves for our entire community. Your continued support is vital to that mission in order to serve our community.

Please consider supporting us by subscribing online at https://www.cullmantimes.com/subscriptions/or by calling 256-734-2131.

All of our subscriptions give you access to all of our digital content as well. If you need assistance to activate your digital subscription, please call 256-734-2131. Our office at 300 4th Ave. SE, Cullman, is temporarily closed to in-person traffic but our staff will be available to answer your phone calls between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

We wish everyone good health and safety,

Amy Henderson, Editor

and Katherine Miller, General Manager