This seems a bit like a commencement speech. Saying good-bye isn't always easy, but in this case it's more like a move up and over.

For the last six months, in which I've occupied this small corner of cyberspace, it's been a pleasure to write about local issues here at WLKY.com. The team at WLKY has been extremely supportive of the Local Voices effort. It's been fun working with the team of writers here, including Brigid and Al and Kirk and Mollie and Cyndy and Brittany and April and Dave and Shannon.

But now it's time to move on, and the good news is that you can continue reading all these writers at my new site, LouisvilleKy.com.

So let's get after it.

The idea to launch Local Voices sprung from a suggestion by Glenn Haygood, the WLKY general manager, who wanted to showcase my writing, and that of my colleagues on the Local Voices team, on a part of the high-traffic WLKY web site using a software package developed by Hearst Corp., the station's owner. So that's what we did, and our team generated a bunch of posts and people came to the site and read the posts and all was well.

Everyone at WLKY has been supportive and fair, and it was in fact Glenn who first suggested to me launching an independent site focused on local news, information and events, featuring a team of outstanding writers, might be a better way to go. He assured me that WLKY would support the venture. So that's what I've done.

Starting today, with the help of a wonderful web designer in Jason Smith, I'm taking my keyboard over to LouisvilleKY.com. And I've gotten assurances from 18 local writers that they will be showcasing their talents there as well.

The site will cover media, politics, sports, culture, sustainability and a lot of other topics that make Louisville the city I love. We're going to get involved in local events, maybe even produce some of our own, and be a player in the local media game.

Currently the site is in Beta mode, so we're testing out a lot of the whiz-bang features to make it more user-friendly. But I've already started writing there, and my colleagues will be doing so this week.

So this is my last post here at Local Voices. Glenn tells me that the posts we've produced during the last six months will remain available in archives, but that the Local Voices presence here at WLKY.com will soon shut down.

So here's a final thank you to the team at WLKY. I hope you'll come on over and see what's going on at the new site.