Announcement
November 21, 2007
Folks,
A Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all and a sizable announcement from your faithful correspondent: I'm out of here.
For all 23 years and 9 months of my life, save for those few days spent as a freshman at Penn State, I have lived on Long Island. For the last two-and-a-half years, my day job has been as a graphic/web designer for a Patchogue-based public relations and marketing firm aptly named the Public Relations and Marketing Group.
Next month, I am leaving both. Heeding the long ago words of Horace Greeley, I am going west, young man. But not too far west — only about three hours.
I have accepted an offer to become the Mountain Top correspondent for the Citizens' Voice, a daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (That's real close to Dunder-Mifflin's Scranton branch!) It is a good opportunity at a strong newspaper and a chance to get back into the reporting world I knew as a youngster and as a student at Hofstra.
Rest assured, I will be back on weekends and holidays (and even some observances), and whenever a good freelance opportunity presents itself here on Long Island or anywhere in the metropolitan area (note to editors and university relations officials!)
A friend of mine quoted the oft-uttered, "you have to start somewhere," when we discussed this opportunity the other day. After much thought, The Citizens' Voice and Wilkes-Barre seem like a good start to me.
BEFORE I go, there is word of some sort of a "good bye" gathering. I figure, in any event, it's a great excuse to eat and drink. Details on time and location will be along shortly, but Friday, Dec. 7 seems like a winner. Pencil it in your Blackberry!
Thanks for indulging my long-winded bulletin.
Sincerely, Mike Sisak
Folks,
A Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all and a sizable announcement from your faithful correspondent: I'm out of here.
For all 23 years and 9 months of my life, save for those few days spent as a freshman at Penn State, I have lived on Long Island. For the last two-and-a-half years, my day job has been as a graphic/web designer for a Patchogue-based public relations and marketing firm aptly named the Public Relations and Marketing Group.
Next month, I am leaving both. Heeding the long ago words of Horace Greeley, I am going west, young man. But not too far west — only about three hours.
I have accepted an offer to become the Mountain Top correspondent for the Citizens' Voice, a daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (That's real close to Dunder-Mifflin's Scranton branch!) It is a good opportunity at a strong newspaper and a chance to get back into the reporting world I knew as a youngster and as a student at Hofstra.
Rest assured, I will be back on weekends and holidays (and even some observances), and whenever a good freelance opportunity presents itself here on Long Island or anywhere in the metropolitan area (note to editors and university relations officials!)
A friend of mine quoted the oft-uttered, "you have to start somewhere," when we discussed this opportunity the other day. After much thought, The Citizens' Voice and Wilkes-Barre seem like a good start to me.
BEFORE I go, there is word of some sort of a "good bye" gathering. I figure, in any event, it's a great excuse to eat and drink. Details on time and location will be along shortly, but Friday, Dec. 7 seems like a winner. Pencil it in your Blackberry!
Thanks for indulging my long-winded bulletin.
Sincerely, Mike Sisak
