Welcome to the blog; city elections near

Welcome to the Independent Register Weblog, the blogging home of Craven County's premier alternative community newspaper, the Independent Register.

This blog will be used primarily to provide readers with a lively online forum and to supplement the print edition, which is distributed every other Tuesday at more than 25 locations in New Bern and Craven County. First, it will be used as an election results blog for the City of New Bern's municipal elections, which feature four contested seats on the city Board of Aldermen.

Since we go to press on Election Day (Tuesday, Oct. 11), and will be unable to provide readers with results in our print edition, we will wait in the county administration building as election officials tally and certify the ballots.

Keep checking this space for updates between now and Tuesday. We may not be a daily newspaper, but we will continuously strive to get information to our readers in new and inventive ways.