Morning Coffee: National Croquet Calendar Closes
Click to visit the storeGood morning croquet nation. You'll notice a new format for Morning Coffee this week. In general, I really enjoy providing a summary sentence or two about each of the croquet headlines each week and hope that readers enjoy the newsletter. It seems that they do as we seem to steadily gain additional subscribers. It's still a cult following, but the growth is there. I like to think of the Morning Coffee as the world's weekly croquet newspaper and certainly hope more and more people will feel the same.
In assessing the overall workload at Croquet Network, the stream of croquet news has outpaced what I can really handle as an editor. Well, I could handle it if that was my sole focus, but I really got into the media side to create content. Therefore, I'm looking at a more automated process for the weekly headlines. Going forward, you'll see a headline and a brief intro for the text. The intro will be abbreviated, so if you'd like to see the full text you'll need to click on the title to learn more about the story or event.
The change comes at an odd time as we learned this week that the National Croquet Calendar has printed its last issue. The Calendar was an institution for croquet players in North America and I suspect the closure will send a bit of a shock through the croquet world. Fittingly we lead with that story ...
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