COMING MONDAY:NEW LOOK FOR PD

TO OUR READERS:

Changes coming this week to The Press Democrat will mean looking for news

in different places.

To adjust to the current economy, we are saving newsprint by consolidating

and eliminating some sections. There will be no feature sections on Tuesday

and Thursday, but the entertainment and health topics covered those days will

appear later in the week.

Business news will appear in the local news section and will be a separate

section only on Sunday. Especially in these times, we know you rely on our

staff to provide you the most comprehensive news about the local economy, so

we are not reducing either the reporting or the space devoted to this crucial

coverage.

But business news, and many other features, will move around. We are

creating a new section called Find It with a marketplace concept combining

advertising and some of the things most familiar to your newspaper reading

routine -- comics, puzzles and advice columns.

So much of reading a newspaper is about the daily ritual of opening the

paper and looking for your favorite things. And this week is going to be

disorienting because they will be out of place. The most obvious change will

be tomorrow, when the Monday paper goes to two sections. We will walk you

through that tomorrow and every day this week as we all adjust to what is

different.

We expect to hear from many of you this week as we embark on changes

mirrored in newspapers throughout the country coping with these times. Despite

the cuts, we have taken care to preserve the depth of our local news report

and hope you find that unchanged despite the different look to the newspaper.