Watch for the new Saturday Valley Voice next week

The Saturday Valley Voice will be twice the size next week.

A regular newspaper-sized section will replace the smaller, tabloid Valley Voice on Saturdays. The Thursday Valley Voice will remain tabloid sized.

And in the weeks following the Saturday rollout, new content will be added to the larger, more community driven Saturday Voice. We’ll start with “Picture Perfect,” a community scrapbook of the people and events that make your life in the Spokane Valley special. The feature will profile photos submitted by readers like you. Maybe that special photo is from a grandchild’s birthday or a marathon day of raking leaves. We’ll publish photographs submitted by readers for free.

Our popular Tributes feature honoring Spokane Valley residents who’ve recently died, will move from Thursday’s Voice to the larger Saturday edition. The move will give us more room for the family photographs that are so important in telling a person’s life story.

Staying in the Saturday lineup are the Valley-focused sports and news articles Saturday readers have come to count on. Saturday Voice staples like religion notebook, the Valley Verve arts column, on the move, inside our schools, week in review and government almanac, will fill out the improved edition.

Our staff and advertisers have been working on this new format for some time. And we believe our efforts have paid off with a product that tells the story of Spokane Valley more graphically and opens the door to more community generated content.

We hope you’ll agree.