This Week's Editorial – By Lucas Knowles
Goodbye, Scarborough
My days at the Scarborough Leader are now numbered. I have taken a new job and will leave this newspaper behind after next week’s paper is published.
I was given a job at this company when I was fresh out of college. A few weeks after I graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 2002, I started working here. It was not long after I began that I started to write exclusively for the Leader.
I have been associated with the Leader for nearly five years now. When I think about my time here, I am reminded just how much I have grown, both personally and professionally. I have literally grown up as a journalist through providing content for the Leader’s pages. Although a person is never finished improving when they work in journalism, I feel like I have come a long way in a professional sense during my time here. On a personal note, I am now a married man with different priorities than when I was a recent college graduate.
During my time in Scarborough, I have covered hundreds of meetings and events, interviewed and met a countless amount of people, have written stacks and stacks of stories and have designed a file cabinet’s worth of pages. There never has been a shortage of stories to write, people to meet, pictures to take or calls to make during these past several years. I think that shows that the Leader will always be full of information important to people in town, but I think it also says something about the community. Scarborough is full of stories and personalities that are controversial, intriguing, silly and serious and it will be for years to come.
I would like to extend some thanks to some people – first and foremost, to my wife, who has supported me and put up with my work ethic during my time at the Leader, to Carolyn and David Flood for giving me a chance and to my co-workers, both past and present, for teaching me new things every day.
Last of all, I would like to thank those who live and work in Scarborough for being good to me during my time at the Leader. I hope I, in a small way, have given something back to your community.
Molly Lovell will be taking over my post as editor of the Leader. Her editorial will be in this space next week. I know she will continue to keep the Leader’s position as “Scarborough’s paper” intact.
My days at the Scarborough Leader are now numbered. I have taken a new job and will leave this newspaper behind after next week’s paper is published.
I was given a job at this company when I was fresh out of college. A few weeks after I graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 2002, I started working here. It was not long after I began that I started to write exclusively for the Leader.
I have been associated with the Leader for nearly five years now. When I think about my time here, I am reminded just how much I have grown, both personally and professionally. I have literally grown up as a journalist through providing content for the Leader’s pages. Although a person is never finished improving when they work in journalism, I feel like I have come a long way in a professional sense during my time here. On a personal note, I am now a married man with different priorities than when I was a recent college graduate.
During my time in Scarborough, I have covered hundreds of meetings and events, interviewed and met a countless amount of people, have written stacks and stacks of stories and have designed a file cabinet’s worth of pages. There never has been a shortage of stories to write, people to meet, pictures to take or calls to make during these past several years. I think that shows that the Leader will always be full of information important to people in town, but I think it also says something about the community. Scarborough is full of stories and personalities that are controversial, intriguing, silly and serious and it will be for years to come.
I would like to extend some thanks to some people – first and foremost, to my wife, who has supported me and put up with my work ethic during my time at the Leader, to Carolyn and David Flood for giving me a chance and to my co-workers, both past and present, for teaching me new things every day.
Last of all, I would like to thank those who live and work in Scarborough for being good to me during my time at the Leader. I hope I, in a small way, have given something back to your community.
Molly Lovell will be taking over my post as editor of the Leader. Her editorial will be in this space next week. I know she will continue to keep the Leader’s position as “Scarborough’s paper” intact.
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