THANK YOU

By Catherine Thurston

It is bittersweet to create this final newspaper.  Long gone family members were instrumental in bringing newspapers to the Eastern Plains. 

There are many things I could say and probably should say about what it takes to produce a newspaper and how it takes the entire community to support a newspaper but you have heard it all before.

Many locals have owned this newspaper and many more have had a hand in keeping it running.  To those of you who stepped up and followed through, we say a heartfelt THANK YOU.  You know who you are and how much you are appreciated.

I will leave you with this final afterthought...

I've said it before and I will print it again, Democracy dies in darkness.  Keep an eye on your local governments, your school boards, your commissioners and all the rest of the folks who have been given any power and your money.  It's important.

Speaking of money-we will issue refunds only if requested and only until the funds are depleted. 

To borrow the phrase from Walter Cronkite which became a symbol of journalistic authority, representing the idea that the news was a mirror held up to public events, "And that's the way it is". 

Or if you prefer the famous words of Edward R. Morrow during WWII, "Goodnight and Goodluck".