Check it out.

You are not seeing double. We have both papers’ names atop page 1 this week. And our editorial and sports and education pages are combined, too. The editorial page, where the letters go, has moved further inside. Our editor Kevin Burnham explains the different take for our print edition in an article this week.

I like the look. They are sister papers and the staff all work together to inform, update, entertain and reflect you. That’s how it’s always been; and now, when fellow area businesses are closed or otherwise adjusting to the coronavirus spring, our advertisers that help us bring it all to you have been belt-tightening, understandably.

So it was our turn. What do you think of it? How’s it look? We even brought back some black and white pages! I remember when local papers were all black and white. So, as much as we enjoy showing the many colors of Midcoast news and life, and we still did in the rest of this week’s paper, there is something nostalgic about seeing an article, pics and all, in black and white.

Maybe it’ll make me up my game in photography. Color can make an average pic shine. But in black and white, a picture’s composition has nowhere to hide.

These are strange times around the country and the world, and lucky are we whose families and friends have not gotten the virus. There’s some perspective. So if you are scratching your head at the newsstand or mailbox, at seeing Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper as one, we invite you to do as we are: See it as our way of going from now until whenever. We’re still here, surviving the times and increasing our resilience, just like you.

Week’s positive parting thought: I can’t imagine yet what high school graduation will look like this year; it may need to be quite different, but there are so many good thinkers in the schools and central offices, they will make it work, in whatever form or forms possible.