Editorial

In June of this year, the editors and publishers of The Odessa Record celebrated the fifth anniversary of having purchased the newspaper from the estate of former editor and publisher Don Walter. The time has absolutely flown by, and it is hard to believe that we ourselves are fast approaching retirement age.

We have made some progress over the past five years in clearing away some of the debt that saddled the newspaper when we bought it. We are no longer paying off a Staples credit card, and we do not have a huge backlog owed to the company that prints our paper.

At certain times of the year,...