First up: take care of yourselves, and mind your health. I hope you and yours are ok, safe, healthy — and that you have toilet paper.

What a time for a global pandemic to hit — apparently the coronavirus didn't get the memo about yearbook final deadline season! I talked with retired adviser Lori Oglesbee-Petter about how tackle the final deadline and adapt to covering our schools and communities through the school shutdowns, strategies for accommodating blank pages and maybe even creating a spring supplement, and ways to maintain routine and normalcy for our kids — and even come out stronger as a program and staff on the other side.

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