There’s a (sort of) new team producing Sippican Week and SippicanVillageSoup.com.

Observant readers may have noticed weeks ago that long-time reporter Georgia Sparling had ascended to the rank of editor. It’s a well-deserved promotion. Since joining the staff more than three years ago, Georgia has covered all manner of tri-town news, produced some of our most memorable feature stories, taken hundreds of eye-catching photos and generally become part of the tri-town community.

A Mississippi native and Brown University graduate, she came to us after spending several years living and working in China. (While her current job has provided very few opportunities to speak Mandarin, she did get a chance to surprise a Chinese delegation touring local cranberry bogs with her fluency in their language.) Georgia lives in Mattapoisett.

She succeeds long-time Sippican Week Editor Matthew Bernat, who has moved across the Weweantic River to become editor of sister operation Wareham Week and WarehamVillageSoup.com.

Joining Georgia in the Sippican Week office – Georgia would say FINALLY joining her – is new reporter Tanner Harding. A native of Rome, New York, and recent graduate of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Tanner was actually hired almost two months ago.

At the time she accepted our job offer, she was about to embark on a seven-week communications internship with the American Junior Golf Association. As Tanner traveled the country writing about and shooting photos of the kids who aspire to be future PGA stars, email receipt of the daily Sippican Week headlines helped her prep for tri-town coverage. Settling into her new Mattapoisett home, she is looking forward to an on-the-ground view of what she has read about.

With journalism work at Quinnipiac largely focused on sports coverage, Tanner is likely to become familiar to a lot of Bulldogs. But, no, we will not start covering Selectmen’s meetings as sport!

Last but not least, Jaime Rebhan has rejoined parent company Beaver Dam Partners Inc. as vice president of news operations. A Syracuse-area native and Emerson College graduate, Jaime came to us six and a half years ago to become Beaver Dam’s first employee when Wareham Week and WarehamVillageSoup.com were launched in January of 2010. After less than a year as reporter and three years as Wareham editor, Jaime took a break from journalism to work for Wareham Public Schools and Wareham’s Community and Economic Development Authority.

When it became evident that our growing company needed more management attention than I alone could provide (and my pleas for a 48-hour day went unanswered), Jaime was persuaded to return for a second tour with the company.

In the newly created role, Jaime is responsible for working with the editorial staffs at Sippican Week, Wareham Week and Dartmouth Week to produce lively, accurate, professionally polished, locally focused news reports – daily online and weekly in print.

As everyone gets her bearings in the new roles, please don’t feel shy about sending us news tips, comments or even criticism. Our contact information is in the masthead to the left of this column today and every week. Let us know what you think!

Anne Eisenmenger, Publisher