Hometown News

"Hometown News" is a book being written by Matt Lubich, who along with his wife, Lesli Bangert, owns The Johnstown Breeze. The Breeze is a weekly newspaper in northern Colorado that has been publishing since 1904.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

When the costs of war came home...

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...During World War II The Breeze was owned by C.N. (Clyde) “Breezy” Brust and his wife, Marie. The paper was solidly behind the war, with ...

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Behind every great editor....

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I went to a funeral at Johnstown United Methodist Church Tuesday afternoon. It was a death in the family. It was the memorial service fo...

Monday, November 16, 2015

Local sisters recall 1955 plane bombing

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Before there was James Eagan Holmes, there was John Gilbert Graham. Sixty years ago, Nov. 1, 1955, on a moonlit night with Thanksgiving...

Friday, March 20, 2015

My date with George Bush (an excerpt from the "how the war played out in The Breeze" chapter)

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...Naturally, given that it was his war, in 2004 I opposed the re-election of George Bush, who naturally made much of his campaign about ho...

Sunday, February 8, 2015

#journalismasemotionalarchaeology

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At The Breeze everyone keeps an empty copy paper box beneath their desk that we throw papers into that someone might find they need down...

Monday, January 19, 2015

Like funeral pyre smoke on the wind as a prayer...

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One month from tonight will be the 24th anniversary of the murder of my Aunt Michele. It would be reeling from this event, and the subsequen...

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