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Publisher Column: Celebrating the Year of Shandy
from January 2025
by Johnston Now
By Randy Capps
By the time anyone outside these walls reads this, our company will be 10 years old. Like anything else that ages, this magazine has changed a great deal in that time.
The first issue of what was then known as the Four Oaks Journal published in May 2015. It was 16 pages, and I wrote almost all of it.
The look and feel of the magazine might be different these days, but the original idea of telling the stories of your friends and neighbors remains at the heart of who we are as a company.
That’s why we’re asking Jamie to grab the reins and serve as our editor. She has a passion for storytelling and I’m excited to watch her vision of our product unfold.
Me? I’ll be at the end of the hall, writing this column and whatever else runs through my mind. Mainly, I’m going to do more publisher stuff — like helping my lovely wife run our ever-changing media company.
Shanna and I like to give each year a name, like the “Year of Wellness” or the “Year of Growth.” 2025 is the “Year of Shandy,” and we’re hopeful that it’s the best year of JNOW Magazine yet.
Happy New Year!
