OK, we mean it this time, I think

It's not that we haven't been trying.

Rather, we've encountered numerous roadblocks in our efforts to revive the Independent Register as an online newspaper. One volunteer Web designer petered out, the second made a complete Web site but thus far has been unable to upload it to our indieregister.com domain.

But Register co-founder, sports editor and all-around nice guy Eric Voliva has agreed to reprise his role as webmaster. He and I will get to work on bringing the Web site back -- with weekly news, sports and features updates.

The new Register won't be the same as our dearly departed print edition, but look on the bright side: You won't get any newsprint ink on your hands.