To our paid subscribers: You kept us going. We just want to say thank you.

We're coming up on the first birthday of Compass Vermont on Substack, and before we do anything else we wanted to say something to the people who made this real: Thank you.

You didn’t have to pay for this.

Plenty of people read Compass for free and we’re glad they do. But you made a different choice — you saw something early, before the numbers backed it up. That choice is what kept the work going through the grind of the last year. We don’t take that lightly.

So before the birthday stuff starts, we want to ask you somethin…