HeyJaredKate Welshofer Was Here
Kate Welshofer's life is changing. The award-winning local news anchor left the news business after 27 years in December of 2023 to find a more fulfilling life. Kate recently became a columnist for her hometown newspaper, The Perry Herald in Perry, NY.
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Feral for the Free Press (opens the original)
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I bought a t-shirt to support NPR that says: “Feral for the Free Press”. I wore it for the first time for my students’ first newscast of the semester. They did an incredible job, showing so much talent, care, and compassion, not just for what they were doing, but for each other. Some things you cannot teach, and that’s one of them. Any newsroom would be lucky to have any one of these students on staff right now, just as they are; but they can’t have them, at least not yet. Some of the veteran fa
Bring Your Own Frog (opens the original)
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The flyer said, “Bring Your Own Frog”. It followed the announcement of a frog jumping contest, one of more than a dozen events for an event billed as an “Old Tyme Picnic” at Farmcraft Brewery on 20-A. The old-fashioned lawn fair served as both a fundraiser for the Sheldon Historical Society and just an old-fashioned good time with dozens of people of all ages showing up to do things like: throw hay bales and husk corn, and see who baked the best apple pie.I accepted the appointment as one of the
And Then I Got in a Fight (opens the original)
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Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, one of my new colleagues, Dr. Rich Lee, began collecting first-person stories from various journalists with ties to St. Bonaventure University, focusing on how a regular day turned into anything but. He is curious how they handled going from one assignment they’ve probably forgotten entirely to another the nation collectively vowed to never forget. Rich graciously invited me to contribute my memories of that day. I’m s
The Mothball Express II (opens the original)
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If there’s one thing I can teach my future students, it’s that doing stupid things, while generally considered inadvisable, is sometimes unavoidable and, more importantly, typically manageable. If they enjoy telling stories, I’d add that unavoidable, stupid things can often provide great material.We live in a world where people, especially young people, are afraid of making mistakes for all kinds of reasons, but they do happen, and the bottom line is: it’s not the end of the world, but sometimes
The Mothball Express (opens the original)
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I have a little book filled with a large supply of tiny things to write about. It’s been a great big help as the clock races to the start of a new semester, my first as a teacher. It’s all a little bit stressful.642 Tiny Things to Write About is the work of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. The Grotto, as it’s also known, is described as a workspace for professional writers. 56 of them contributed ideas to the little square book. The foreword is written by a journalist and author named Po Brons
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