“All I ever wanted to do was to be a journalist, and I didn’t want to leave Ogdensburg,” he explained. . . .He knows nearly everyone in the city, often introducing people by citing the names of their parents and grandparents. He regularly visits people at St. Joseph’s nursing home. And when people call on Sunday to complain about a missing paper, he often drives out to deliver it in person.
Not only are community newspapers and newspapermen like this a vanishing breed; so are the communities.
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