New look, format, new office

Well, it took a village and about six months to pull off, but we hope you like the new, improved look of The Sentinel’s Street Edition. 

We’re all pretty pleased with the way it turned out.  Thanks to local logo guru Jeff Fisher, The Sentinel now has a spiffy new brand identity and logo.  Design improvements to our website should follow as well, courtesy of awesome St. Johns activist and web designer Andy Nelson. The new format of the paper was artfully devised by Colleen Froehlich and gives us a more professional look with great graphic design potential.  I would like to thank the team and everyone else (too many to list) who have dedicated their time and effort into making this paper and news service possible.

The street edition is slightly smaller, as you may have noticed. We are following in the footsteps of other publications like the El Hispanic News, Willamette Week, and others by lowering our print surface to save money.   The small format also allows us to have a certain amount of rack copies “unfolded,” which is also kind of cool. 

There are more changes afoot. As some of you may already know, we have relocated our offices to 8371 N Interstate Ave. We are now located just to the east of Paul Bunyon’s butt in the new Disjecta building (see front page) next to Wells Fargo and across the street from the Dancing Bare (yes!).  It was a hard decision to move again. While we certainly will miss being in St. Johns every day,  I for one am excited about being in Kenton where there are lots of great things going on including the new library (see page 1), a new streetscape, new restaurants and housing developments.
Summertime in the city

But enough of that. This month The Sentinel hopes to bring you the definitive local guide to hot times in North Portland.  From our dueling North Portland festivals — the Mississippi Street Fair and Cathedral Park Jazz Festival (see pages 10 and 11) — to family friendly entertainment on (page 12) to a roundup of local BBQ joints (page 18), this edition of The Sentinel is basically one giant list of things to see and do in your back yard.  We’ve also launched our web-driven community calendar section this month (page 13).

As always you’ll find local news tightly packed into our neighborhood sections. Not to mention the online news forum where there’s a constant churn of conversation, news and controversy, and some of it doesn’t even have anything to do with me. We hope you find it all useful. And if you see a local business advertising in the paper, please shop with them, or just thank them for making this service possible.

See you in the neighborhood.
Cornelius Swart
Managing Editor/ Publisher