Letter from the Editor: Saying goodbye and giving thanks

Well, this is really the first time I’ve had to write one of these, so let’s see how it goes.

This week will be my last with The Journal. I have recently accepted a position with a news organization in southwestern Washington, which will allow me to be closer to family in an area that has been a second home for me throughout my childhood.

News about The Journal’s next editor will be forthcoming in the near future. But I want to spend time now on thanking our readers and eastern Adams County for welcoming me, a stranger, into their communities as I embarked on my first job in the journalism ind...