I'm not in the habit of directing readers to a competitive newspaper company, but I must commend your attention to a column in this week's Kingston Times by its editor, Diane Pineiro-Zucker (a former Freeman reporter, by the way).

Diane's message, in the wake of the recent closing of our weekly newspapers in Columbia, Dutchess and Putnam counties, resonates for her weekly, the others in her Ulster Publishing Group, and newspapers everywhere, including the Freeman.

Read it and digest.