Disappointment

In 1999, I started this site for a couple of reasons; to reconnect with my hometown (I was living far away at the time) and to give people a place to post all sorts of nonsense after the Lake County News Chronicle really clamped down on what they would allow to be posted on their site.  At the time, I did not blame the Chronicle folks one little bit, since their site apparently wasn’t intended to be a real community forum.

Since then, my opinion of our local paper and the writings therein, has swung back and forth like a pendulum. I guess that is to be expected, since it’s unrealistic to think that I, or anyone else is going to agree with everything the paper prints. Other things to agree or disagree with might include how they decide what to print, choices made, or positions espoused by the writers.

I’m feeling more than a little miffed about the choices apparently made regarding publishing anything about the closing of the last barber shop in Two Harbors.  This is a little bit personal, but it’s also about ignoring the loss of a small business and the end of an era. It’s about not bothering to respond to multiple emails from me.  And it’s about ignoring the closure of Gould’s Jewelry and the loss of that small business as well.

Gould’s had been open under that name since the early 70′s and was previously owned by Mr. Erickson. I don’t recall now long Erickson’s were around, but it was certainly a significant length of time.  I just don’t see why these events aren’t deemed worthy of mention in our local paper, but  things like Joe Blow’s container garden (I made that one up) and a variety of other topics are.

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