Cape Charles Wave Announces Winter Hours

October 20, 2014

The Cape Charles Wave is following the example of Brown Dog Ice Cream by establishing winter hours. The Wave will still publish, but on a reduced schedule.

Readers are invited to continue sending event notices for ON THE TELEPHONE POLE, as well as comments to ANONYMOUS and news to GOSSIP. The CLASSIFIEDS section remains open as well.

LETTERS will be published whenever received, as will COMMENTARIES.

So what’s changing? Essentially, what you read in the Wave will now be largely whenever and whatever the public submits, while the regular reporters hibernate.

Our 688 subscribers will continue to receive an email whenever a new story or event notice appears. But our nearly 500 Facebook friends will need to check the Wave on their own, unless there is breaking news.

During hibernation, the Wave archive remains available to all: 1,350 stories to date, which have received over 1 million page views by nearly 120,000 unique readers since July 2012. The average time spent on each of those 1,088,000 page views was 2 minutes 51 seconds, meaning that a total of 51,680 man-hours have been devoted to reading the Wave. That should be enough to make anyone ready to hibernate!