Bringing you up to speed on some important staff changes:

Reporter Meghan Malloy joined our Kennebec Journal reporting staff last week, covering police, public safety and commuting issues. Meghan is a native of suburban Des Moines, Iowa. She joins us after a one-year internship at the respected Des Moines Register. She's living in Gardiner.

Scott Martin takes over as executive sports editor of the KJ and Morning Sentinel today. I blogged about this appointment a few weeks ago but today's officially his first. Scott's been with us for about 10 years as a sports writer. He knows the area and he shares my ambition of making our sports sections among the best for papers our size in the U.S. Scott lives in Hallowell.

Former sports editor Ben Sturtevant today starts as Web manager. He will be THE key guy in developing our Web sites, from both an Advertising and News point of view. Ben's moving to a new work area in the middle of the KJ newsroom but he'll report to Publisher John Christie. Ben lives in Hallowell.