KEEP THE ZEPHYR ALIVE….JOIN the BACKBONE

Though we’re still digging out from the last blizzard, Spring is hopefully around the corner and The Zephyr keeps on going. We are about to enter our 25th year and our fifth as an online publication. I miss the paper as much as many of you, but readership-wise, we’ve never done better.  We continue to grow dramatically;  the February/March issue received more than 25,000 unique visitors who linked to our web site over 75,000 times. THANKS.

The Zephyr still offers unvarnished, honest journalism.  We quote people accurately and we get our facts right.

And please remember, we are a truly independent publication— no person or company or corporation or grant-giving entity contributes enough to ever make us abandon our own consciences. If we can’t speak honestly and candidly, regardless of ‘the falling chips,’ what’s the point? And besides, gagged journalism just isn’t any fun. We take some pleasure in being honest, even if we’re slightly broke.

And finally, beyond the politics and interminable debates and the dire predictions, we find ourselves looking back more frequently at a West that is vanishing before our eyes. For better or worse, the ‘New West’ is the future. Now, The Zephyr’s most important role may be to serve as a document recording that demise. In anticipation, we’ve been collecting images and stories for a quarter century.  We no longer ‘cling hopelessly to the past.’ It’s gone. But we love to remember it.