The Richmond News has a new editor.

Long-time city hall reporter and acting editor Maria Rantanen has been named the editor of the publication that’s been bringing the news to the Richmond community for almost half a century.

Rantanen said she’s traded in her combat boots for Skechers Slip-ins to keep up with the pace of her new position.

While Rantanen will continue to keep her seat warm in the “press gallery” at the back of city hall chambers, she’s also tackling the rapidly changing landscape of news.

Rantanen started in the business almost 20 years ago, finishing her journalism training while raising three young sons, all under 10 at that point.

Freelancing took her around the Lower Mainland — from Chilliwack to Burnaby — and she finally settled at the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows T

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