Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of LymeLine

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October 30, 2025

A Message to Our Readers from the LymeLine.com Publisher/Editor

We are proud to say that on Dec. 3, 2025, LymeLine will celebrate 22 years of publication—that makes us one of the oldest, continuously published online community news websites in the country!

LymeLine.com was founded by veteran publisher Jack Turner in 2003—he engaged me as his News Editor, but after some 12 months of operation, he decided to sell the business, and my husband and I purchased it.

We have owned LymeLine since 2005 and pride ourselves on our objective, accurate and unbiased reporting through all the subsequent years. We also believe—and are frequently told—that LymeLine is recognized as an informative, vibrant and trusted resource for the community. 

For almost 22 years, it has been my privilege to share local news and views with the community through LymeLine. Readership and financial support of the news site have increased dramatically over that time and I am truly grateful for the trust readers and advertisers have placed in both me and LymeLine. 

Publishing LymeLine for that length of time has also been tremendously rewarding and fun (well, most of the time!) I have had the pleasure of meeting an enormous number of people along the way and forged many lifelong friendships.

But it is time for me to move on to new adventures. This has been a very hard decision but I—and my family—know it is the right one.

What ultimately made the decision easier was the knowledge that a group of local residents has formed a nonprofit organization with the intent of continuing the publication of LymeLine for the benefit of the community. 

This organization, named LymeLine Inc., is fully committed to continuing our tradition of independent, accurate, unbiased local journalism covering the Lyme-Old Lyme community. It intends to be strictly non-partisan and hopes to be supported by charitable donations.

We are in discussions with LymeLine Inc. about the possibility of donating LymeLine to them, but at this point, LymeLine Inc. is not operational and LymeLine is still fully under our ownership and control.

I commit to keeping our readers updated as negotiations continue regarding the future of LymeLine. In the meantime, we will continue to publish LymeLine in the normal way with no change in the quality and objectivity of our reporting.

There was some recent speculation on social media that LymeLine has changed ownership. That is not correct—as stated above, we still fully own Shoreline Web News LLC, which publishes LymeLine.

Thank you for your continuing support—it is greatly appreciated.

Olwen Logan
Publisher/Editor, LymeLine.com

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Olwen Logan

Olwen Logan grew up in a family of London educators but was inspired by her great grandfather, influential Daily Chronicle newspaper editor Alfred Ewen Fletcher, to pursue journalism. She built a successful career in efficiency analysis and senior audit management before launching her own PR-focused consultancy. After moving to the U.S. in 1990 and settling in Old Lyme in 1994, she became a staff writer for the now-closed Main Street News and later joined Jack Turner’s fledgling LymeLine.com, discovering the career she had always wanted—albeit in an unexpected digital form. Even after relocating to Maryland, she continued covering Lyme and Old Lyme with the same dedication, earning national recognition as a LION Publishers award finalist in 2020. After more than two decades of service, Olwen stepped away in November 2025, donating LymeLine.com to the newly formed nonprofit LymeLine Inc. and expressing her excitement for its continued growth and mission.

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