Goodbye to Peter and Lori

Final Days? A Newsroom Diary

by Ian Lind, Star-Bulletin reporter

High noon, Friday, September 1, 2000.

The deadline for bidders interested in purchasing the Star-Bulletin.

And lunch catered in the newsroom to say good-bye to Peter Wagner and Lori Tighe, heading off to different parts of the world. Peter's heading down the street and Lori's off to Baltimore. But for us the result is the same. Farewell's are never easy.

That's publisher John Flanagan (above, left) saying aloha to Peter, while Lori gets a sendoff from acting managing editor Frank Bridgewater and business editor Ed Lynch. Everyone else was ready to belly up to the counter for free food.

When copies of Friday's final edition were delivered, I grabbed my camera, realizing this would be Peter was reading his last Star-Bulletin as an employee of the paper after almost 20 years on the staff. Then, just a short while later, his desk was empty, leaving just a hint of himself, a copy of an old picture from a former life that was dredged up from the archives.


That's publisher John Flanagan (above, left) saying aloha to Peter, while Lori gets a sendoff from acting managing editor Frank Bridgewater and business editor Ed Lynch. Everyone else was ready to belly up to the counter for free food.

When copies of Friday's final edition were delivered, I grabbed my camera, realizing this would be Peter was reading his last Star-Bulletin as an employee of the paper after almost 20 years on the staff. Then, just a short while later, his desk was empty, leaving just a hint of himself, a copy of an old picture from a former life that was dredged up from the archives.