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Here’s a belated congratulations to Carmen Kofoed, who has taken over as managing editor in Winnemucca, and a fairwell to Julie Fairman, who has left Laughlin for Colorado.
Kofoed is now editor of the Humboldt Sun, Battle Mountain Bugle and Lovelock Review-Miner, as well as Nevada Rancher and the News4Nevada site that serves the Winnemucca Publishing properties.
As the story notes, Kofoed has worked for Winnemucca Publishing for 18 years.
“I’ve done almost every job in this building,” she said. “I’ve done page design, I’ve done writing, I’ve done editing, I’ve done special projects – just a little bit of everything for a long time.”
Meanwhile, in the southern reaches of the state, Fairman is leaving the Laughlin Times for the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain.
“The next couple of years will be interesting ones for Laughlin,” she wrote in a farewell column, “and I’m sorry I’m going to miss them.”
Those interesting times, she warned, will see the collision of two trends — lack of water in the Las Vegas Valley and rampant development.
“The people in power in Clark County, the city of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Henderson don’t give a hoot whether or not communities like Laughlin and agricultural lands downstream have water,” she wrote.