Pennycross Gazette

## Location

The local newspaper of Pennycross, Massachusetts.

## Known Employees

* Fletcher Wildman
* Fletcher's boss
* Fletcher's editors

## Sequential History

### A Skeleton In The Family

Fletcher Wildman has a full-time reporting job at the *Pennycross Gazette*, so he's only teaching one class at McQuaid. Fletcher says that he ended up at the *Gazette* because he got laid off from his own beat, so he got a job at the *Gazette* because he thought he'd prefer it out of newspaper, TV, and blogs. Georgia says that she can't see the *Gazette* running a piece about adjunct's perspective and wanting tenure because McQuaid is one of their regular advertisers. Georgia later thinks that Fletcher is starting to look fishy, because he'd been so interested in getting a photo of Sid for the *Gazette.* After Sid tries obvious places to cross off people on his possibly-Sids list, Georgia tries searching less familiar places, such as the *Pennycross Gazette* archives. Thanks to the *Gazette*, Georgia is able to cross off two men, because they'd joined the army. When Georgia declines Fletcher's offer to go back to his place, he admits he has work he needs to do at the *Gazette*. Fletcher later sticks around just long enough to get the interview Georgia promised him, but because of his journalistic instincts, he knew she was leaving out parts of the story and hated it.

### The Skeleton Takes A Bow

In searching for details about the murder Sid overheard, Sid first pulls up the *Pennycross Gazette* website. However, its lead story is about the city council meeting. Fletcher is still employed at the *Gazette* as of this book; he wrote the city council meeting story and Georgia thinks that if her relationship with him had ended better, she'd have called him with a tip about the murder Sid overheard. Later, the *Gazette* does run a story called 'Body found in Pennycross', but all it said it that a body had been found on the east side of town and identification was being withheld until the family could be notified.

### The Skeleton Stuffs A Stocking

Phil recalls reading in the *Gazette* that the area where the Nichols house was is zoned for single family housing, and since the head of the zoning board lives next door, the Nichols heirs won't be getting a variance any time soon. Later, in his list about details about Rose, Charles recalls that on the morning of December 23rd, he went out to get a hot breakfast for he and Rose and he picked up a copy of the *Pennycross Gazette* too. That's when they saw the announcement that demolition of the Nichols house was imminent. Sid later tells Georgia that the *Gazette* has online archives dating back decades, so it wasn't hard to find the right issue regarding Rose's disappearance, but he had to go through it several times because he spotted what Rose saw or might have seen. The only thing in the paper that could hint at where Rose came from or where she went is that North Ashfield was holding a big Christmas Festival and Fenton's was helping with the festival. Georgia goes through the issue herself, trying to come up with something other than Fenton's that could've given Rose hope for a new sanctuary, but unless a last-minute sale at Building 19 had attracted her, Fenton's was the only thing. The *Gazette* ran a photo of the Nichols house when the whole hoarding thing came out, and this is what nudges Sid toward suspecting that Sue Weedon lied to them.