After many years of receiving all my stories, features, and History and Happenings columns, the owner of the Atlantic Highlands Herald said that all of a sudden, with apparently no reason, he was not able to receive my last column sent and received by him in the exact same manner as hundreds of others over many years.
I don’t know the reason why the Atlantic Highlands Herald is folding after so many years and truly hope it is not for any health or family situation reasons. But ostensibly not receiving my column, sent the exact same way as the tens of thousands of words of mine he has used to bolster his blog, now makes me think it is the popularity of my blog, venividiscripto.com that has caused him to write “30” on his own.
How very sad, how very unprofessional, how very humiliating for him. Competition is healthy, a variety of opinions is the American way. It is only the coward who is afraid to express them all.
When I questioned why my final column was not included with the others from other well respected writers,, I received the following.
I did not receive your column yesterday at any of my email addresses. Sorry you missed it. Best wishes.
I repeat my best wishes for the blog owner, his family, and the history he has created for on line ‘reporting.’
For those interested in seeing what I had said, and which was not included in the last issue of the Atlantic Highlands Herald, please read the following.
While I am so sorry to see the Atlantic Highlands Herald take a hiatus, I hope its founder, Allan Dean, can take great joy in having provided the avenue to spread the news, both good and bad, for decades in Monmouth County. It was his creation of an online newspaper 23 years ago that gave Mayor Mike Harmon the ability to offer it as a legal newspaper for the borough of Atlantic Highlands, the first online forum in the nation to earn this honor.
For many, many years, I have enjoyed being a contributor to the Herald by writing both news and feature stories, as well as my History and Happenings column about the wonderful legends and lore of the Bayshore. To all who have enjoyed these stories and have sent me so many complimentary comments about them, while I am sorry to say goodbye here, I would like you to know all these stories about the wonders of the Bayshore, both past and present, will continue to be posted on my blog, VeniVidiScripto.com. Those of you who have studied Latin know what the name of my blog means; those who know anything about me at all know that truly “I came, I saw, I write.”
Thanks so very much for reading me on the pages of the Atlantic Highlands Herald. It has been terrific for me. Hopefully this hiatus will be short and Allan and the Herald will once again be active online. Allan opened the paper to writers of all talents and abilities and gave Bayshore readers the opportunity to meet both old and new authors and a variety of opinions. Thanks so much to all my readers and especially to Allan for the opportunity he gave me to share the wondrous history of the Bayshore.
