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8th Steward of the Tribune Reflects on 140 years of publishing

(photo from the June 21, 2018, Edition of the Wet Mountain Tribune) Dropping behind my keyboard to hammer out this editorial for the last edition of the Tribune of 2023, I cannot help but think of the 140 years (or more) and the seven owners of the Tribune before me who took stock of the year, as I am doing right now, behind their typewriters. The news business in a rural community is an odd affair. ā€œNothing changes, but nothing stays the sameā€ is the verse of one of my songs that I occasionally strum out on a guitar, and on the last week of the year, the steady march of time is obvious. I came to journalism by accident. My main cash flow back…