Independent Sources’ Big Day: 72,743 page views
Thank you readers for our biggest day (over 72,000 page views) and one of our most popular posts ever.

Update: Saturday’s total was 68,863, just shy of our record.
Update: Sunday total was54,645 56,713, our biggest Sunday ever.
Update: Monday total was 86,641, a new record.
Update: Tuesday traffic 61,113, our biggest Tuesday.
Update: Wednesday traffic 49,831, our biggest Wednesday.
Update: Thursday traffic 73,539, our biggest Thursday.
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And another h/t to the man who started it all, Pat D.
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July 17th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Quick correction to the Erica Chevillar story. Principal Fran Giblin’s full given name is Francis: he’s not (as you reported) female and jealous; if anything, he’s only looking to avoid controversy.
July 17th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
David. Thanks for the heads up. As I write this I’m firing the person who fact checked that story.