We at the newspaper and DelcoTimes.com do a lot of things that cement our reputation as the paper of record in Delaware County.
This week we did several of them.
If you have not noticed, we are hip deep in high school commencement season.
This week we printed our annual salute to high schools grads, our Grad Tab. In it was the name of every graduating high school senior in Delaware County.
Also on DelcoTimes.com you will find stories and slideshows from high school graduations. There were three yesterday. There are five scheduled today.
You can find the Penncrest graduation slideshow here, and the Archbishop Prendergast festivities here.
We will endeavor to cover them all. We consider them a milestone in the lives of our readers.
That makes them important to us. Important enough to send a staff writer and photographer to cover many of them.
No, they probably won’t be the lead element on our P. 1. But my guess is a lot of people will stash those Grad Tabs and keep them for a long time. They become part of the family scrapbook. And those stories, photos and slideshows on our website? They will reside there forever.
A vignette told by a co-worker maybe best describes the value of these items. She had just exited a local Wawa along with a person who had just purchased a copy of the paper. The person sat down in the car and immediately opened to one of the pages in the Grad Tab. You could literally see him scanning the names, looking for that one name that meant the world to him.
The smile on his face told us everything we need to know about how important that information is.
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