If you’re not a fan of change, please turn your head or maybe take a vacation for a few weeks — or even a month or so.

Leadership positions all across the Miss-Lou are in flux and will soon be changing.

In just a couple of weeks, our community will have two new mayors — both of who are familiar faces — leading Natchez and Ferriday. New police chiefs will lead the police departments of each city. One new person will be at the table of the Natchez Board of Aldermen.

Two new superintendents will lead our community’s two largest school districts. New CEOs now manage two of the area’s hospitals.

Change is all around the Miss-Lou.

Despite the sweeping changes in the positions of political power, however, we hope all sides realize the power in our community continuing to work together through regionalism.

Much work has been made in the last few years to get area business, civic and government leaders to begin conversations that were long overdue. Those conversations led to the mutual understanding that political and state boundaries only divide our community when we allow them to do so.

Further, leaders learned that we could get further by working together than pulling in different directions.

Change is good and change can be refreshing. Hopefully all of the change will not cause regionalism to lose its momentum.