It’s hard to believe that Lynn and Brenda Adams will be leaving Ohio. It is still beyond my comprehension that Our Community newspaper will actually stop publishing. My whole being longs for a new issue to be printed, with a banner headline proclaiming “April Fool! We’re still here and plan to stay for a long, long time!”

I pass the gracious home on Elm Street in London with its “For Sale” sign out front, its spacious porch still looking as welcoming as ever.

I stop in many of the businesses that advertise in the pages of Our Community. People comment on the columns penned by yours truly and my dear doglet, Wiggles Blue Heeler. Like the farm store, Quality Farm & Fleet, London will never be the same. Our Community will always hold a special place in my heart and in the hearts of many others.

A quiet sense of shock still pervades the air. It can’t be true! Surely some person with enough wealth to keep this vital newspaper in publication — and enough love of our community not to be dissuaded by the other area papers — will step up to the plate and “make it happen!” Someone will email those of us who write columns and provide this invitation: “We’re publishing Our Community and need your articles, please!”

I realize that things have a season, a time, a purpose. Can the time and season of Our Community have come and gone so quickly? Say it isn’t so — but know that each issue of this publication makes me feel like a better person, a stronger member of our community, and more positively focused on our part of the world.

My fervent prayer is that this special person is somewhere out there, just in need of one more reason to “make another go at it” and continue printing Our Community for our community. We need Our Community to continue! I’m full of future columns to share with readers, and I’m not alone. Every columnist will miss this special venue, just as each reader will miss the positive and upbeat nature of Our Community.

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