On Sunday, we ran a very positive story on new retail plans for Newton County. If you missed it, you can read it at covnews.com.

The whole tone of the story about our prospects was encouraging. And the Chamber’s retail recruiter, Dave Bernd, is a very positive, can-do guy.

Bernd’s enthusiasm for our future is infectious. That, along with news about new developments that are to begin soon, might well be the light we have been looking for as we have slowly begun our ascent out of the dark economic mess that we’ve been mired in for the past eight years.

Newton County has too much to offer not to rebound from this economic mess in the most positive of ways.

We look forward to running even more positive stories about our future economic growth.