This week’s edition of The Gustine Press-Standard and The West Side Index is brought to you after many hours of interviewing, photographing, writing and editing.

Dean Harris, Julie Rose and David Clark have put together one of the best story lists and photo packages to ever be published in our papers. Together with our creative services director, Chris Cline, our advertising salesperson, Mary Beth, has gathered advertising that will give you some great insight into the types of services and products that our local merchants – as well as those in our circulation area – have to offer.

With the continued rise in fuel costs, this is a perfect time to check out your local businesses and shop right here at home. You will not only save on fuel costs – each dollar that you spend right here at home will turn around five times – it benefits the local business, who in turn passes it on to their employees, who in turn passes it on to other local businesses who in turn pay sales tax, which in turn benefits your city. My head is spinning at the possibilities and benefits of shopping locally!!

Getting back to this special edition - there are many other aspects of putting your weekly newspaper together - the classified and real estate ads, the proofing of stories, the subscriber labels, the plates and the negatives, the printing, the inserting, the delivery – the list could go on but I won’t bore you with all of the details. My point is that it takes our whole staff to bring you this newspaper week in and week out – and this week they went the extra mile to bring you this very spectacular edition.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy the stories, photos and advertising. We hope that you will like it so much that you will decide to get our paper delivered to your home each and every Thursday. We want you to be informed community members and we feel that there is no better way to do that than to become a subscriber. Look for our special subscription offer on page A-8.....we hope you join the ranks of loyal Index and Press-Standard readers who look forward to their newspaper each week.

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Rising gas prices certainly are a topic of discussion, from the coffee shop to the beauty shop everyone is talking about the price of gas.

Our special front page feature gives you an insight into how some local residents and their families are coping with dishing out the extra cash it takes to fill up their vehicles.

While researching some older photos, Holly Cope and Rosenn Gregory found this old photograph that shows gasoline at $.25 per gallon – wow, what we wouldn’t do for that price again! Personally, I don’t see it going down anytime soon.

In an effort to give consumers a break, our presidential candidates are debating whether the federal gas tax should be suspended. While it sounds like a great idea to consumers, many experts and candidate Obama predict that it would cost the special highway fund over $10 billion in lost revenue. The fund is used to repair and construct roads all across the nation. Probably not going to happen!

Following are some interesting statistics that have taken place since the last change in the federal gas tax, which was in 1997. There are 18 percent more cars in the United States that are being driven 18 percent more miles on only 2 percent more miles of roads while the price of gas has risen 129 percent. Not really the kind of statistics that look appealing to the consumer – then again, it’s never looks good for the consumer.

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