"I was fascinated with the guy. He just looked like a newspaper man. Sounded like one, too - quick, poignant words with a raspy voice. I eventually came to realize he was the quintessential small town publisher: Passionate, knowledgeable and involved in his community, with just the right amount of toughness and cynicism."
The lifelong journalist always said if you were going to be a reporter in a small town or be the publisher of a small town newspaper, you had to become a part of the community. Here's one former student who took that to heart.
