Ch-ch-ch-changes
I think I speak for all my colleagues here at the Journal when I say that Friday was a sad one.
No, it’s not just because we won’t be receiving our paychecks until the following Friday, although that fact isn’t helping get the party started either. We were all pretty down in the dumps May 9 because it was the last day for our chief photographer MacLeod Pappidas.
After finding a job at another daily newspaper in Aberdeen, Washington, hometown of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain for what it's worth, he's leaving Northern California for sunny Washington state.
But fear not people of Ukiah, help is on the way. His replacement, our former assistant photographer Sarah Baldick, is an amazing person and fantastic photographer. For a small town newspaper I've been amazed at the level of talented photographers we've been blessed with especially since the last newspaper I worked at didn't even have a photographer on staff. We just had two point and shoots we took with us on assignment.