The West Seattle Herald, publishing here since 1923 made a significant change to our home page in December so here's a reminder.

If you look at the lower right you'll see we've added a new feature. Twitter posts, offering as close to real time updates as possible.

This means that for breaking news, you will likely see it from us, on that section first. It won't just be links to our final story on something. It will be alerts to things happening that we are on our way to cover or items for which a full story isn't necessary or which we don't have all the facts on yet.

Adding this feature is in keeping with a long standing history of innovation for Robinson Newspapers. In 1957 we were the first weekly newspaper to print with a rotary offset press. In the early 1970's were were the first to use FAX machines, and optical character recognition systems. In the early 80's we created the first all digital video and audio production facility in the world in Seattle.

More recently we introduced a dedicated iPhone app (and Android) for the Herald and our sister publication the Ballard News Tribune and the completely different iPad app for both publications too. All apps are free and carry no advertising.

If there's a change you'd like to see us make, we'd love to hear it. Please let us know (or if you have a news tip or story idea) westseattle@robinsonnews.com