It's never a good time to spend a day and a half in bed with the flu, but it's worse when your parent company has just filed Chapter 11.

I'm not at liberty to make many public comments about the filing. All inquiries are being directed to the home office.

But understand this: The Freeman will continue to publish a quality newspaper to serve our readers and advertisers. That should come as good news to all but the handful of dolts who aren't able to picture the shortcomings of community life without their local newspaper.