I was both shocked and saddened to get my latest edition of the Mercury and read where publication will be suspended! I have always looked forward to reading the paper while I was in Florida during the winter months; it keeps me in tune with all that goes on in Richfield Springs. I could have gone on-line to read The Mercury, but there’s just something about holding a home town paper in ones hands while they are away from home that gets into your soul! I will miss the paper very much and only hope that there will be a viable alternative to economically resurrect the Mercury once more! I and lots of other R.S. citizens appreciate your efforts to start the paper after so many years of absence and will definitely miss words from home while many of us either don’t live there any more or who may be away for an extended period of time. I know that my sister in Arizona and Chad and family in Kansas are disappointed! John Houghtaling Florida |