My first week in Kosciusko has been spent wading through a sea of cardboard boxes and learning more about the new city I call home.
Last Thursday, I made the move from eastern Texas to Kosciusko after being offered the job as publisher and editor of The Star-Herald just a few days earlier. During my first week here, I have spent much of my time unpacking boxes and learning my way around the area.
All of the people I have met in Kosciusko have been incredibly nice and welcoming, reminding me how much I love living in small-town America.
I grew up in Dover, Ark., a little town on historic Hwy. 7. The newspaper business has always been a part of my family with my mother working as the managing editor at my hometown newspaper The Dover Times.
She got me into the business at a young age, starting my journalism career at 15 years old writing about junior high football. Once I graduated high school I became the sports editor of that paper. I would soon become the advertising director for The Dover Times and its sister paper The Atkins Chronicle, along with being the assistant managing editor and sports editor in Dover.
Life in Kosciusko has been a slower pace than living near the Dallas metroplex, something I have enjoyed so far. In my previous job, I worked in Paris, Texas, as a city editor covering events like shootings, stabbings, court cases, arrests and city council meetings. Reporting on those incidents is important, but I missed going out into the community and highlighting the good things people are doing.
I am excited to have the opportunity to do that here in Kosciusko.
In my short time here, I have seen the hard work residents put in to bettering the community.
I look forward to meeting more people here, and I am thrilled to call such a great community home.
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