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The Dial-Up Gazette

Millbrook, est. 1953 ~ Serving the valley, now on the World Wide Web ~ Friday · 25¢ (this edition free, reluctantly)

Web circulation: · print circulation: everyone else in Millbrook

Town Gets Its First Website; Nobody Sure Who Asked

By the Editor · Front page

MILLBROOK - After forty-six years of ink, the Gazette has, at the urging of the town librarian, arrived on the Internet. Readers may now enjoy the paper on a screen, at a resolution the editor describes as "perfectly adequate," from the comfort of a room with a telephone in it.

"We were told the Web is the future," said publisher Harold Vance, 71, squinting at a beige monitor. "We remain open to the possibility." The site loads in under a minute on most connections and requires no special software beyond a browser, patience, and a willingness to hear the modem sing.

Classifieds, the weather, and letters appear at right. The crossword, management stresses, is still in the print edition, "where a pencil belongs."

Library Extends Hours

The Millbrook Free Library will stay open until eight on Thursdays, citing "unprecedented interest" in its single Internet terminal. A sign-up sheet is posted; sessions are capped at twenty minutes.

Y2K: Valley "Calm"

Officials report no cause for alarm as the millennium approaches. The traffic light at Main and Third has been certified compliant. The light at Main and Fifth "was always a little unpredictable."