This year saw some big transitions on our news team. In April, I moved up to become news editor. Though I’m still writing (admittedly less often), it left a hole on our small, three-person news team. Nate Sanford and Colton Rasanen stepped up to report even more news, covering the biggest happenings in the city and our local school districts, as well as the community at large. By July, we brought on Victor Corral Martinez, who’d previously reported in North Idaho and California, to fill out our team. Then in September, Sanford returned to Seattle to take the next step in his career, but first he wrote a marathon of election coverage for us. Luckily, we were able to tap the journalistic talent we already had in Eliza Billingham, pulling her from our food section to take over the city beat.