At his newspaper last year, editor Dennis Joos was shot and killed in the parking lot as part of an incident involving the deaths of two state troopers and a judge. If anyone has the right to draw a Fort Apache mentality, we do, Harrigan said. But none of us would want it. We love the give and take that goes with the characters. The News and Sentinel is a country newspaper, Harrigan said.
People are welcome to walk in.
We do not have a gate. We do not have a buzzer. We do not have armed guards. We have no barriers. And it will stay that way for as long as I draw breath, Harrigan said.