Happy Holidays from Patch to You!

With the holiday season reaching a crescendo and 2014 around the corner, we wanted to take a moment and thank you -- our readers, bloggers and biggest supporters -- for making Patch the place for creating local connections and sharing community news and information.

Patch staff across the country work hard everyday to bring you interesting, relevant content. As part of our mission, we aim to improve the lives of people in the communities we cover, and that means providing an open platform where anyone is welcome to share their voice, no matter the topic.

We are very proud of what we’ve built but truly, we couldn’t do what we do without all of you -- community members who have embraced Patch. Your blog and board posts have helped shape Patch, making it a robust community gathering place. We appreciate your contributions!

From the Patch family to your family, we wish you a wonderful holiday season and a very happy New Year!

Haven’t started a blog yet and would like to? Email Community Editor Nicole Foulke at nicole.foulke@patch.com to get started. It takes less than five minutes and you can share whatever you want, however you want (so long as it doesn’t violate our TOS, of course).