Improvements coming to The Eagle's website

In recent weeks we’ve shared how we plan to keep giving you a quality product each week. This week, we’re sharing some improvements we’ll soon bring to our website, waheagle.com. We hope these changes will provide greater convenience and more accessibility for our faithful subscribers.

Right now, a number of features we include in the print paper aren’t shared online (menus, calendars, etc.). This will be changing, as we’ll be including things such as community calendars, menus, tide reports, and additional photos.

We will also offer an “e-edition.” This will display the news in the portable document format (PDF), with each page’s layout appearing as it does for the printed edition. An e-edition is beneficial not only for the readers—it’ll include crosswords, puzzles, and comics—but also for those who advertise in The Eagle as well.

We will also offer more flexible subscription terms. Monthly, quarterly (three-month), and semi-annual (six-month) subscription options will be available both for the website and for print editions.

So far, access to waheagle.com has been free. A good portion of the website users also pay for a subscription to The Eagle but in order to make these improvements, we will be limiting full access to the website and its new features to subscribers only, both print and online. This will allow us to share some of the features that come with more restrictive redistribution rights.

We will be happy to help our existing subscribers access their subscriptions on the website, and these shorter terms should help ease this transition for those who are not currently subscribers.

All of us at The Eagle—Jacob, Ian, Kirk, and Jennifer—thank you for your continued support as we work to expand and improve the paper. We hope these improvements will not only enhance your reading experience but expand it as well, as your valued patronage helps keep The Eagle flying.