I’m not sure how it happened, but 40 years have passed since I first walked into the office of The Messenger and began my newspaper career.

The Messenger, in case you don’t remember, was a community newspaper that covered the Clemson-Central-Pendleton area. It eventually consolidated with its parent publication, now called The Journal.

I had been hounding old J.A. Gallimore, the owner and publisher at the time, for a job back

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