If you had told me that when I was in journalism school, I would find myself working for a newspaper in Devils Lake, N.D., I would probably say you’re drunk, crazy, or both. But that’s the funny thing about my life. There are things I never thought I would do that I would wind up doing.

I don’t want to kill the lede as they say in the business. As of May 23, 2025, was my last day working at the Devils Lake Journal. Why am I leaving? In short, I got a great offer for a job opportunity in New York City that I couldn’t turn down. I apologize this letter is going out much later when I am already gone, it’s just the nature of the news business sometimes.

When I moved to Devils Lake in September 2023, I was unsure of what to make of my life. Would the town of 8,000-plus people like me or hate

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