The year is quickly ending and we’ve reached an interesting time period for The Oakland Press.

There’s not much happening this week that is planned from a straight news standpoint. Municipalities and school boards are not conducting meetings. They probably canceled any scheduled ones. For example, if they normally meet during the Fourth week of the month, odds are that session has been canceled.

So, the news that you’re getting now are feature stories or hard news events that are happening at the moment. For example, the storm in New England, obviously, is generating lots of air time and ink.

Locally, we seen some crime news and unfortunately, a few fires that taint the holidays.

From an editorial standpoint, there’s not a lot of ideas being generated this time of the year. But we do come up with a few, depending upon current events. We ran in today’s paper an editorial on the East Coast snowstorm. It was, basically, that this could happen here, but for the grace of God, so learn from the experience of our fellow Americans suffering through the blizzards and their aftermath. The most obvious lesson is to respect Mother Nature, she can certainly be humbling.

On Friday I’ll discuss why some topics are fair game for repeat editorials, although they probably won’t be repeated word for word. I’ll explain Friday.