By Dominique Tassell
It’s been a very busy few final weeks for us at Warwick & Stanthorpe Today.
As I sit here on print day, almost an hour late with my editor’s desk (I wish I could say that wasn’t normal these days and if our production team is reading this I’m so very sorry), I’m so exceptionally grateful for my team.
It has been an absolute delight working here for the past seven months and I’m very much looking forward to the New Year and all the work we will do together.
Having Emily here has been such a help, and not only is it nice to have another pair of hands but also absolutely fantastic to have a partner in crime and friend to work with every day.
Sam and Lisa at this point are family to me. I cannot thank them, and members of their families, enough for welcoming me to town and looking after me.
To the community, I really don’t have the words. The support I have received from you is something I will always be so grateful for. Thank you for encouraging me, and also sorry that my voice seems to be imprinted in some of your minds.
I would hate to disappoint by not saying at least one thing that was mildly heated, so I do want to address one thing in an otherwise (rare) positive Editor’s Desk.
In light of some recent online conduct by associates of Councillors, and other conduct I have not necessarily witnessed myself but been informed of, I sincerely hope that Councillors and their associates will conduct themselves with more kindness and respect in the New Year.
There are some topics that simply should not be weaponised, and it shows a serious lack of moral integrity to do so.
On a lighter note, I’m delighted to announce that I’ve signed a 12-month lease and bought a dog. So you’re not getting rid of me any time soon.
I’m absolutely open to suggestions for names for my new friend, and would appreciate Southern-Downs themed suggestions for her name.
