Except for the logo not much changed for several months. The regular columnists continued with their submissions. There was Our Man in Henley (alias Trevor Malton who was asked to drop the nom de plume) on restaurants and anything else that caught his attention, Letitia Bezuidenhoud on herbs, Leslie Hoy on gardening and green living, Brian Fraser with his regular feature on the night sky and Joy Kirsten, and later Nancy Eagar, reporting on the HRRA. There were several other less regular contributors like Aubrey Easterbrook, Johan Coetzee and people with a gripe about something not being right in the village and, less often, something positive.

The new editors were grateful for this continuity as they discovered that this was really quite a venture and were having to learn a whole new set of skills.

The third anniversary of the new Herald was celebrated with the first pages in colour covering the opening of the museum in April 2012. At first there were just 4 colour pages and then 8 as they were more expensive to produce and consequently different rates for grayscale and colour adverts. The photos were put mainly on the colour pages and this made the paper unbalanced. The advertisers took to colour adverts and their increased price so by August 2013 it was decided to go to full colour and at the same time changed from newsprint paper to white bond paper. White paper actually reduced the printing costs as, because PCN buys it in much greater quantity than newsprint, this paper was cheaper. There were readers who were worried that the paper had lost its village nature by going to white paper but the quality of the photos was so much better that those reservations were soon forgotten.

The content also gradually changed: The regular contributors were running out of ideas so all of them stopped over a period of time. Midvaal sent in more Council news, the charity organisations sent in more of their news and the editors covered the social events taking many photos. This meant that the puzzle page was dropped. Over the years Facebook became a more immediate outlet for gripes and fewer letters were received. Now the only regular contributor is Lynda Parsonson with her Councillor’s Corner.

In 2012, with the introduction of more expensive colour adverts the editors decided to expand into Walkerville mainly to give advertisers a wider market. The Walkabout was a 4 page insert covering Walkerville news and advertisers. One notable contributor from this area was Eric Conradie, retired curator of the Railway Museum. He supplied some fascinating articles on the history of Henley rail and other local history. However, the contributors from that area dried up and the hoped for advertisers did not materialise, so the Walkabout was dropped after a couple of years. 300 or so copies continued to be distributed there until June of 2018 when they decided to drop that too.

From then to 2019, 2000 copies were printed 11 months of the year and distributed to shops in Henley, Golf Park, Daleside, Klipriver, Kookrus, Meyerton and Rothdene. Also schools restaurants and libraries. After the Post Office strike of 2015 it was decided to stop placing the Herald in the PO boxes.

At the end of 2019, after nearly 11 years, Georges and Sal decided that new energy and vision was needed and that the time had come for them to retire form the Herald. It helped that 2 years previously Jen de Klerk and husband TJ had moved into the village. They immediately became involved in village life. Jen had been editor of the Saturday Star for many years and had started a blog on life in Henley. They were the ideal candidates to take over the Henley Herald.