Newsflash: The Cary News office is moving. Starting on Tuesday, Dec. 2, the newsroom will be sharing office space with McClatchy Interactive, the online division of our parent company, 1100 Situs Court, Suite 100 in Raleigh.

Our advertising department moved to The News & Observer building in downtown Raleigh several weeks ago. So our office has seemed rather quiet — and large — lately as the newsroom packs for its own transition.

Both moves will allow us to save on expenses while continuing to serve our readers, advertising customers and communities.

I want to assure you that we will still be in your communities, reporting on town government, high school sports, local business trends, schools and all the things that we know are important to our readers.

In fact, technology has made it possible for journalists to work more efficiently from wherever they are. Our sports editor works from a laptop. Our photographer can send photos from his cell phone. Sometimes we even update our Web site from our homes. (OK, I’ll admit, I can check my e-mail from home, too, but you may not get too many responses on a Saturday or Sunday.)

The Cary News has been at 212 E. Chatham St. for 28 years — longer than many Cary residents have been here. The paper has been in downtown Cary longer than that. This will be a big change for us, and for readers who have been so used to stopping in with a news tip or to drop off an announcement. (Hint: We would much prefer you e-mail announcements to carynews@nando.com, because it saves us having to retype them.)

One thing I’ve gotten used to in this business is change. The Web has forever changed our industry. We’re leaner, we’re using technical skills many of us never anticipated needing, and we’re finding more and more ways to interact with our readers through new technologies. One fundamental thing has not changed: Newspapers are better than anyone at telling stories with detail, depth and perspective. At the community level, I believe we offer a service that no one else does in quite the same way: telling readers about their communities, their neighbors, their local governments.

Telling them about where they can shop and play and connect with people with similar interests, without even leaving town. The Cary News used to have a slogan for it: “relentlessly local.”

In order to keep doing all of those things, we have to “roll with the changes,” as REO Speedwagon, one of my favorite ’70s bands, sang. I know our readers, some of the savviest and most informed in the Triangle, will roll with us.

Our phone numbers will be the same. Please come visit us.