Today marks my last day as city government reporter here at The World.

Beginning Tuesday I will be The World’s first reporter dedicated to reporting for wenatcheeworld.com. That means I’ll be developing stories specifically for the Web site and I’ll be learning how to do things like create videos, slideshows, blogs and do all kinds of other fun online multimedia stuff. I’m very excited about it and eager to get started.

Wo what does my departure from the city beat mean for Applesauce?

Well, not much I think. I suppose I won’t be blogging a lot about city government, but I still plan on keeping on keeping on with the whole blogging about life in The Valley thing that I’ve bee doing here (which has been treating me splendidly, thankyouverymuch). So you shouldn’t notice many changes at Applesauce.

I will say that while I am excited about the opportunity to enter the ever-changing world of online journalism, I am slightly saddened to be leaving the fine staff of metro reporters here. But I know where to find them and they know where to find me (we’re only 10 yards or so apart in the newsroom, a.k.a. Applesauce World Headquarters) so there shouldn’t be any separation anxiety on either of our parts.

So I’d like to conclude my last Applesauce post as a metro reporter quoting the great Ron Burgundy:

“Stay classy Wenatchee World metro staff”