I seldom agreed with Carole’s editorials and would talk loudly back to the newspaper when she wrote something I disagreed with. I also praised her writings on current local activities and her concern for the welfare and continued caretaking of our beautiful countryside.

She wrote about and photographed so much that is lovely in our corner of Colorful Colorado.

Carole will be impossible to replace. Who else will attend all those interminable school board, town hall, planning commission meetings? And give us fair and informed information about them? The entire structure of small town news will show a crumbling from within as this venerable and dedicated journalist leaves the profession.

Thank you, Carole, for never taking a real job. The Pine River Times will not be the same without you. You will be missed.

Betty Brister

Bandera, Texas