An update for The Monitor’s owners

This article was published in the Montana Newspaper Association’s December newsletter.

Three years ago this month, I stood before a crowd of 200 strangers in the cafeteria of Jefferson High School in Boulder. They were there mostly to celebrate Jan Anderson, my predecessor, for her 17 years and over 900 issues as co-owner, publisher, and editor of The Monitor.

But they also were a bit curious about me. I was, after all, a New Yorker with no previous connection to Boulder — and my wife, Jackie Dyer, and I had just bought their newspaper. Several asked me that evening: Why?