It’s hard to believe another month has flown by. Where did August go? And now September is almost upon us. …

What? Wait. No way! I must have blinked.

Time really does fly when you’re having fun.

Here we are, about to turn the page into October. The high school football regular season is more than half over. That’s what happens when some teams play three games before September even arrives.

So it’s time for a little midseason analysis.

You be the analyst.

How are we doing?

In my Aug. 12 column, I previewed our plans for high school football coverage. They were ambitious, particularly in regard to what we call Web First coverage.

I told you we would be dedicating people exclusively to an Internet operation that would supplement a print team.

I told you reporters would call us each time a team scores, plus at the end of each quarter and the instant a game is over. I told you we promptly would post scores and more of games in progress.

I told you we would post statistics minutes after a game ends, not hours later, not the day after.

I told you we would post a few paragraphs that put a game in a nutshell.

I told you we would shoot and post videos that capture sights and sounds from selected games.

The beauty of writing a column that gets posted in cyberspace is that online readers can post comments at the bottom of the column.

Some readers posted comments on my Aug. 12 column. One posting was short and simple:

“I’ll believe it when I see it.”

What a cynic. What a skeptic. What a great journalist mraider412 could be.

Such doubts were understandable. What I was describing seven weeks ago represented a quantum leap for a news organization that until then might have been guilty of more talk than action.

Now … look. We’re delivering just what we said we would. Honestly, what we’re doing is faster and better than I ever imagined this soon.

But it doesn’t matter what I think. I want your feedback.

Our progress isn’t limited to IndependentMail.com. Because we have moved our college football preview coverage to a weekly special section called “SNAP!” that is inserted in each Saturday’s paper, we have more space in our Sports section. Consequently, we have more than doubled the amount of space that we dedicate to coverage of Friday night football games.

One page each Saturday is called “Side Show.” It’s a photo page that is giving our coverage an extra dimension. Our photographers are turning their cameras away from the field long enough to shoot bands, cheerleaders, fans, etc. High school football, after all, is more than a game. It’s a community event. It’s a spectacle.

It’s an improvement in our coverage? It’s about time.

Don Kausler Jr., editor of the Independent-Mail, can be reached at (864) 260-1249 or by e-mail at kauslerdh@IndependentMail.com. Visit his blog at IndependentMail.com.