Our Kennebec Journal Web site has just won three significant awards, and we wanted to share the news with you. The New England Associated Press News Executives Association last week said the Kennebec Journal/MaineToday site was the best overall site in New England for a newspaper with daily circulation under 40,000. That's first place, overall, for daily newspapers in our size category. We are very pleased.

Also, the KJ site won first place for best Sports pages online, and for how we present the news at our site ("News Presentation" was the name of the category).

One judge wrote that our site, "Offers the best use of rollover detail on the top menu I've seen anywhere, plus it offers a full package of updated news, clean organization and Web-only features."

For News Presentation, one judge mentioned our treatment of the "For I Was Hungry" project as a high point at our Web site. The judge also noted our site, "Offers breaking news, even on weekends, as well as well-packaged feature stories with multimedia and reader-involvement tools."

While the kjonline.com site won these awards, it is important to note that the Morning Sentinel staff shares in these. Many of the news stories and Web updates that we do every day are shared among both of our sites (kjonline.com and onlinesentinel.com), and written by reporters at both the Sentinel and KJ. Two of the newsroom employees behind this are: Elizabeth Comeau, in the KJ newsroom; and Glenn Turner at the Morning Sentinel.

These awards are a credit to our colleagues at MaineToday in Portland, too. They set up much of our current home-page design and provided tools and training that we needed to do some of the things that the NEAPNEA judges liked.

And they're a credit to our readers and our communities. Everything we write and take photos of involves you and this beautiful, intriguing area that we call home.

Although we are proud of this accomplishment, that doesn't mean your feedback -- critical, neutral, positive, whatever -- should stop. To the contrary, we are really just beginning to hit our stride online. Now is a great time to tell us what you'd like to see in the future.