A letter from the publisher

Dear Advertiser, Subscriber, Reader and our Community at large,

These days of the coronavirus pandemic are uncertain times, to be sure, and change has become the order of the day — it almost seems every day brings a new and possibly major change.

While Jennings Daily News is a business, we are also a news source and we know you rely on us to bring the facts without spin, rumor or conjecture. Nobody ever needed facts more than today about what’s going on in the community.

We intend to stay the course of keeping you informed as is our duty and our trust — but how we do it will be altered as have the courses of so many other businesses.

Beginning this week, we will temporarily be printing and delivering only the Wednesday and Sunday editions of Jennings Daily News. We will keep producing the Jennings Daily News electronically in eVersion (no print version) on our other regular publishing days (Tuesday, Thursday and Friday).

Subscribers can read the news paper on their computers, tablets and phones via our eVersion delivered to your email inbox, Monday through Friday and Sunday. Subscribers also have access to all content on our website at www. jenningsdailynews.net. Nonsubscribers can get a limited information feed there as well, including COVID-19 information.

More and more readers are turning to our website — jenningsdailynews.net — and hundreds of you have started receiving our electronic replica, or eVersion, of the physical newspaper.

If you need any help signing up for the eVersion so that you don’t miss anything at all, please either give us a call at 337-824-3011. If you are already a subscriber to our print version, simply go to our website www.jenningsdailynews. net and click “E-Edition” on the blue bar; then click the newspaper; on the next page, in the right-hand column, click “Already a Subscriber”; then fill out the form and you’re done! If you would like to become part of our subscriber family, follow the prompts under “Subscribe” on our website www.jenningsdailynews. net. Our Facebook friends will be provided a link to our website’s public news feed, “friend” or “like” us there for your input.

You will continue to get these eVersions, unabated, during the abbreviated printing cycle we are announcing here. The eVersion looks exactly the same as the one we print, except it may occasionally have some extra pages. It arrives in your e-mailbox early mornings on publication days — and you can make the type as big as you want on your computer, tablet, desktop or laptop. You can read it anywhere you can get email. We will keep them coming.

All COVID-19-related news articles will be available to the entire community on our website as our means of informing the public who don’t subscribe to the newspaper. We ask you to consider subscribing if you don’t already and we profusely thank you if you do subscribe — it’s one way we are able to keep doing what we’re doing. Subscribers have access to the full package of news and information, commentary, uplifting and inspirational stories of our community people and events written by our experienced journalists Sheila Smith, Allison Cryer and Stacey Fontenot.

Better days lie ahead, and we believe that together wewill get through this unexpected storm to the other side. Thank you very much — all of you — for your support in the past and even moreso now, for your future support. That support makes all the difference — and makes our work worthwhile.

We are Jeff Davis Parish Strong and United Strong!

Respectfully,

Dona H. Smith

Publisher