So it’s the 60th anniversary of this August Publication – did you know the traditional gift for 60th wedding anniversary is diamonds? Seems a little pricey to me…..if you asked me to guess I would have said bauxite. When I think of the importance a newspaper can exert in a community, I think back to a wharf in New York City in the year 1841. A Periodical titled Master Humphrey’s Clock was published in London that year – it contained, among other news, a serialized form of Charles Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop. Bearing in mind that Dickens was paid by the word, his combination of cliff-hanger chapters and lengthy descriptions of intrepid characters and bleak places lent itself to long and heart