Dedication

Several weeks ago on the same day, two long-time staff members came to talk with me about their jobs here at the paper. Both have worked for the paper for over 40 years! One will retire the end of March next year and the other wants to reduce her hours to half time after the first of the year. We can hire people to fill these positions, and they would probably bring some new ideas and ways of doing things that we hadn’t thought of before. But there’s no replacing experience and institutional memory.