It's a season of change for us at the Gazette-Times, and this is a good time to bring you up to date with a variety of new developments here at the newspaper.

First, on Friday, you will notice some major changes to the Entertainer: The weekly publication now will include a somewhat abbreviated version of the TV listings that used to appear in Sunday's TV book.

Here's how the combined Entertainer and TV book will work: One of the covers will be the Entertainer cover for that week. Then, if you flip the publication over, you'll see the cover of the TV book. It sounds a little odd, but I'm betting it will seem natural when you see the combined product on Friday.

We will stop publishing the TV book that used to be part of Sunday's paper.

This is a move that allows us to save some money; like businesses everywhere, we're doing everything we can to keep a close eye on costs. As you probably know, other newspapers across the country have decided to eliminate their TV listings entirely, but that's not a step we wanted to take at this time.

Speaking of the Entertainer, likely you've already noticed that Jake TenPas is leaving his position as the editor of the publication. He's done a great job, but he's decided that the time is right to try his hand writing about music and movies and graphic novels and whatever else grabs his fancy in a bigger setting, possibly Portland. We wish him the best.

Stepping into the job as Entertainer editor is Nancy Raskauskas, who has plans to tweak the design of the publication and expand its presence on the Web, two big goals. She's already familiar with the Entertainer, having written for it and coordinated its calendar listings.

The job of compiling those calendar listings falls to Brandon Goldner, a journalism student at Linn-Benton Community College who also moonlights as the G-T's afternoon receptionist. He'll be busy.

You'll notice other changes with Sunday's paper: We're rolling the Home & Garden section into the Lifestyles section, a move that should allow us to retain the content of each but package them together. We're also pondering ways to improve the Lifestyles section, and we'll talk more about those later.

Also on the books for the next few months: A redesign of the G-T to go along with a move to slightly narrower newsprint. The goal here, of course, is to save money on newsprint, the biggest expense we have next to payroll. The move gives us a chance to revisit the redesign we launched a couple of years ago, and we plan to take advantage of that.

Finally, let me call your attention to a new feature that we've launched on our Web site, gazettetimes.com, that you might not have noticed: Most weekday mornings, reporter Matt Neznanski sneaks into the newsroom early and files a one-minute video report about stories that have broken overnight, stories that we're working on that day and other items that have caught his interest.

Most mornings, we have the "G-T Morning Minute," as we call it, up on our Web site by 8:30 a.m. or so. Check it out.

Like newsrooms everywhere, we're working toward harnessing the power of the Web to break news first, to invite conversation with readers and to post material we don't have room for in the printed newspaper. The "G-T Morning Minute" is an experiment for us, and I invite you to check it out.

In the meantime, I've taken the digital plunge myself, and have launched a blog on our Web site to discuss all matters involving the Gazette-Times, from comics to delivery and everything in between. And, of course, I welcome your comments as well. You can e-mail me at mike.mcinally@lee.net, or call me directly at 758-9502.

Mike McInally is publisher of the Gazette-Times.