Publisher’s Note: Appalachian Post and our Sunday Routine

December 7, 2025

Sundays are a day of reflection and rest for us here at Appalachian Post, and as such, we usually won’t post news unless something major is happening or going on that ends up falling on a Sunday. I (Stephen R Harlow) run Appalachian Post myself, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, but Sundays are my days off, despite the fact that, in this business: there are no days off. Rest assured that I am still dedicated to delivering the news to you 6 days out of the week: Monday through Saturday, but today we take a break from the news, and we offer our readers and viewers a break from the news as well.

            I feel that it’s very important that we all take a day out of the week, get away from the drama, shut off the noise, and enjoy ourselves; on Sundays we’ll have our famous Sunday Storyline, Opinion Articles, History posts, and Faith and Life articles, but as far as the hustle and bustle of daily news goes: we step back from that on this day. Our goal on this day is to entertain through stories, offer enrichment through articles on Faith, give you fun History articles, and help you get to know us: who we are as a business and who I am as a person. We’ve done so much already, having (literally) just launched this past Monday, and I will have a huge update on what our first week in business looked like, tomorrow (our weeks go from 8:30 p.m. on Monday to the same time on the next Monday because that’s when we launched this past week).

            Thank you all for being so loyal and reading our articles, listening to what we have to say on topics, and for coming back (day after day) to read the news as it was intended: non-biased, A-political, completely central. What we say is, simply that here’s the news, only the facts as we can confirm, here’s what it definitely says and definitely doesn’t, you decide on how to feel about it. It’s not our place to take a side or stand with one side or the other, and in fact: we have no side.

Thank you all, again, for your readership and God Bless you on this wonderful Sunday.

We will see you tomorrow for week two!

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