It will be hard for some journalists who began in the days of hot type to quit newsprint entirely. It may not happen in our lifetime, but it is coming as surely as Gutenberg did away with the scribes who laboriously printed one letter at a time on vellum. One can only hope that the centuries of progress we've made in news gathering and presentation is not lost. That would be tragic, not the loss of a printing press. We were struck by one of State Supreme Court Chief Justice Burley Mitchell's comments upon announcing his retirement.
Public office demands public service.
Elected politicians are representing the people's interests, not their own or those of a small clique. Stanfield's mayor and others honored retiring town clerk Barbara Waksmunski Friday morning. There was cake, plaques, flowers and hugs. Her husband, Cornelius, and daughter, Jenny, came by. Mark Alberghini and his wife and daughters dropped in.