For the past few months, we have been hard at work on a new iteration of CovNews.com that we hope will provide readers with the best and easiest way to learn about the happenings in your community. This is a beta site and, as such, we are hoping for some feedback before the site officially changes over in a few weeks. So please, visit beta.covnews.com and give it a test run. If you find any problems, please let us know either by commenting below, sending an email to tsmith@covnews.com or by posting on our Facebook wall.

Be aware that some links will take you back to the old site for now until we officially change over. Also, pictures in stories look a little odd right now because they are being pulled from the old site and slightly distorted. That will also be fixed when we actually switch over.