John R. Moses is a veteran journalist. Gale Armstrong Moses is an expert in marketing and advertising sales who is also an on-call substitute teacher at Upper Valley schools. The couple co-owns Talkeetna Landings B&B in Downtown Talkeetna. They moved to Talkeetna, Alaska in 2006 to buy the historic B&B from Gale's mother. They believe that local news is vital to any community, and is especially vital in rural Alaska. Many sources of news exist, but they don't offer both the speed of the Internet and local news content. The Pioneer Press has a monthly print edition with extensive local briefs, news, sports, photos and columnists. The Pioneer Press also has an online Community Calendar and Local Events listing. You might miss a big newspaper's deadline to get a club meeting date to your members and friends. The out-of-town papers might not even bother to run your notice, or lose it in the spam-filled inbox. Local news is our priority and breaking news is covered on our Web site. Nothing can or ever should take the place of our community's crown jewel, KTNA, or the state and world news you get from the daily papers. The staff hopes readers find this site, and the print edition, to be informative, fun and useful. Please send in your ideas -- what you'd like to see here. Join us in this adventure and help this site turn into a lively online community. Send in your announcements, birth notices and the other things that make Talkeetna, Willow, Trapper Creek, Caswell, Sunshine and Houston the places we call home. E-mail us at editor@akpioneerpress.com