What is the Daily Freeman without Hugh Reynolds?The paper has been struggling financially for quite a while.
Friends and employees have mentioned the trickle-down process of staff reduction that has occurred for a while now. It's a tough break for those who lost their jobs, but this signals a national trend in news distribution. Libraries are suffering as well and when is the last time you saw an encyclopedia?
Hugh Reynolds is an icon in Ulster County and will not be soon forgotten. Fan or Foe, you have to admit, you knew when he entered a room. Question is, what is the paper looking to do with it's remaining staff and the methods of investigative reporting?
Will politicos like me, run amok without repercussions? Not likely. Paul Kirby does just fine with us nine knuckleheads, but there will be a void in that cubicle every day.
Wait...I just got a brilliant idea, why don't they hire Jeremy Blaber to handle the column. Sure, a small cut in pay and an unlimited supply of rice pudding packs and Pepsi would make him happy.
Like a garden gnome, Jeremy has been everywhere. Worse things have happened.
