Friends:

If you've been redirected here from Our Hudson Valley Network (a/ka Carl's List), I have exciting news for you.

Carl's List has been acquired (adopted, really) by our friends at Ulster Publishing (Woodstock Times, Kingston Times, et al.). Many thanks to publisher Geddy Sveikauskas for appreciating the synergies in this partnership!

Soon you'll be able to do everything you used to do at OurHudsonValley.net at the UlsterPublishing.com website. It's a great new home for Carl's List (which, by the way, will keep its current name).

We don't yet have a firm date for the re-launch of Carl's List at the Ulster Publishing website, It will be soon, though, and when we go live I'll let you know. In the meantime, Carl's List will be on hiatus as we prepare for the switchover.

As for whether I'll continue to be involved with Carl's List, only the shadow knows. In due course, once the new Ulster Publishing site has been launched, Geddy and I will explore what ongoing role, if any, I will have.

Since its inception almost ten years ago, Carl's List has grown from a 30-person mailing list into something of a local institution. I've greatly enjoyed my time shepherding Carl's List, and while my active involvement in Da List may be reduced, I won't be going anywhere. I'll still be in Kingston, focusing on the next chapter of my life. Among other things, I'll be writing a regular column called The Visionary Times for the West Coast-based Matter Network. The column will track cutting-edge positive-change projects from around the world. It's work I'm proud and excited to be doing. Carl's List is about local community. Here I'll be working with a different community -- people from around the world who are working to usher in a more sane and just and environmentally healthy world. The novelist E.M. Forster nailed it a century ago: "Only connect."

Carl's List is dead, long live Carl's List!

Warm regards to all,
Carl