My Masterpiece

Hometown News: The Ballad Of Ray And Rose

Date: November 16, 2007
Posted by: Matt Lubich
(Johnstown / US)

There's an old journalism adage, usually uttered by editors who haven't had their butts out of a comfy leather newsroom chair in years, which goes: "You know… the news just doesn't walk in the door." But sometimes, it does:

http://earthblog.net/eb-articles/lubich1.html

Chronicling it all, every Thursday for more than 103 years, another issue of The Johnstown Breeze has hit the streets as they've gone from rutted, rural dirt roads to asphalt state highway. I've worked at the paper since 1991. In 1997, Lesli and I bought it and she came to work here: becoming one of more than a dozen husband and wife teams -- sprinkled with the occasional ink-stained bachelor printer/owner -- that have kept the pages coming off the presses.


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