The Bloxwich Telegraph is to suspend regular publication and go into ‘hibernation’ for an unspecified period, effective from today.
In a recent front page Leader column, Stuart Williams, the Editor and Publisher of the online news and local heritage magazine for Bloxwich, Leamore, Blakenall Heath and Birchills indicated that, due to increasingly heavy family and work commitments, the frequency of updates to the popular website would generally be reduced to weekly.
However Mr Williams, who founded the Telegraph in 2006 as The Bloxidge Tallygraph, has now decided to suspend publication altogether, until further notice.
Stuart said in his last Leader, which will be updated this evening:
“Particularly on the family front, of late I have found it necessary, as a carer, to considerably reduce my other activities. This has been a difficult but essential process. Family has to come first, I’m sure you will appreciate.
“I also have a great deal of other writing to do, outside my work in support of local history in general and Bloxwich history and news in particular. I need both time and space to deal with this and serious family matters. Inevitably, therefore, I have much less time to work on the Bloxwich Telegraph than previously.”
Mr Williams, who is Bloxwich-born and bred, and has resided in Bloxwich and Blakenall Heath all of his life, said at the time that he had no plans to close The Bloxwich Telegraph down.
But developments since then have meant that, for the personal reasons outlined, he now feels it necessary to take substantial time out from working on The Bloxwich Telegraph, and the website is therefore going into ‘hibernation’ until further notice.
Stuart will continue to keep an eye on Bloxwich and district as time permits, and on that basis will continue brief updates of news etc via The Bloxwich Telegraph’s Twitter account, which readers of The Bloxwich Telegraph and others are invited to follow. To do this, simply join Twitter if you are not already a user, and follow our account via the following link:
https://twitter.com/BloxTelegraph
It is also hoped to offer a limited automated service via Twitter, which will be announced in due course.
In the meantime, we thank our readers for their support in the past and hopefully in the future.
