It’s that time of year again. The Christmas tree has been dismantled, the empty champagne bottles from New Year’s Eve are in the trash, and the pages in my day runner are brand-spanking new and alarmingly blank. It’s a typically slow time of year in the world of news – the post-holiday lull seems to have everyone moving in slow motion.

Not so at The Evening Sun. In just a few short weeks, we’ll be bringing you our biggest, most ambitious project of the entire year – Progress Chenango 2008. Every year during the last week in January, we publish a multi-section report on the state of business, education, health, arts, religion and just about every other subject area imaginable that touches the lives of the citizens of Chenango County. Our annual Progress edition has grown over the last two decades from a 16-page tabloid to an 80-page broadsheet section last year. If past performance is any indication, Progress Chenango 2008 will be even bigger and better.