Happy Birthday! Bolingbrook Patch Celebrates its 1st Anniversary

My how time flies. 

On this day last year, Bolingbrook Patch was in the wee-hours of its infancy, having just launched on the World Wide Web as a new source of online news for , Money Magazine's 43rd best place to live in America.

Your handy editor Brian Feldt was nervous, excited and unsure of how the community would welcome him.

Today, Bolingbrook Patch is a thriving hub for community news and information — complete with engaged readers, informative contributors and insightful bloggers.

And on the day of our one-year anniversary, I have no doubt that Bolingbrook Patch is an essential community read and will continue to be for many years to come!

Really, I couldn't be more proud of you, the reader.

We've come a long way from when we first launched. The site looks different, feels different and for all intents and purposes, is different.

Readers have become accustomed to calling us The Patch instead of just Patch. My response? So long as you can remember the URL and read our stories, you can call it whatever you'd like.

Readers have gone from asking when our print edition comes out — I still get this one every now and then — to making Bolingbrook Patch their go-to source for all things Bolingbrook.

But above all, Bolingbrook Patch has gone from just a few hundred followers to tens of thousands of followers.

And it's all thanks to you. Without your continued support and willingness to help spread the word about Bolingbrook Patch, we wouldn't be where we are today.

So as we celebrate our first year, let me be the first to extend the most sincere thank you to each and every one of Bolingbrook Patch's readers.

Thank you!

And of course, what would a From the Editor column be without a selfless plug. Here are a few things that may help you better navigate Bolingbrook Patch during year two:

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