About the Observer
Who watches the watchers?
The Madison County Observer has covered the county's affairs since a date we've chosen not to disclose, filed from an undisclosed office whose lease is, as far as we know, current.
We specialize in a particular kind of reporting: the zoning hearing that runs long, the ribbon-cutting that raises more questions than it answers, the county business conducted in plain sight and somehow still a mystery. We take it seriously. We are the only ones who do.
Everything printed here is satire. Some of it is also, unfortunately, true. We leave it to the reader to determine which parts, and to whom they should report their findings.
The Masthead
Harlan Vale
Editor in Chief
Keeps the paper factual, local, and only as respectable as necessary.
Nora Pike
Reporter
Covers public meetings, private grudges, and anything officials hoped went unnoticed.
Silas Bell
Photographer
Documents the county faithfully, including its least flattering angles.
Edwin Crowe
Columnist
Provides the county with opinions it did not request and cannot return.
Merritt Slone
Cartoonist
Draws the county as it sees itself, which has prompted several complaints.
Arthur Vane
Meteorologist
Forecasts rain, road closures, and the certainty someone will blame Frankfort.
Otis
Correspondent
Covers the county after dark, primarily from unsecured trash receptacles.
Name Withheld
Legal Counsel, Retained Regrettably
Advises caution. Is routinely thanked and ignored.
Official Notice
The Madison County Observer is a work of satire published for the entertainment of Madison County and its neighbors. Any resemblance to actual persons, councils, or Walmarts is fully intentional.