Thanks for the memories

Just the opposite. I’m leaving. That’s an old post. My resignation letter from two weeks ago read, in part:

“It is with a heavy heart, after a 30-year career in the newspaper industry, that I submit my resignation as Editor/Publisher of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News. … Thank you for the opportunity to lead such a fine group of newspaper people in Saranac Lake. Any successes I had are due to their hard work and dedication.”

My last full day was Wednesday, Nov. 6, in time to lay out my last LPN.

Since beginning my newspaper career in 1994, I’ve worked hard and done my best, but I’m ready for a new challenge.

Andy Flynn holds a Pentax K1000 film camera while covering the arrival of President Bill Clinton, wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea at the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear on Aug. 18, 2000. The first lady was a candidate for a New York seat in the U.S. Senate at the time. The following day was the president’s 54th birthday. Flynn, 30 years old then, was the managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise at the time. Air Force One is on the runway behind him.
(Provided photo)

My next job will be at the state Department of Environmental Conservation Region 5 headquarters in Ray Brook, still in communications, but this time in the dispatch office. It’s an important and challenging job, and I’m looking forward to further serving the community in a different capacity.

I’ve spent about 15 of my almost 18 years at Adirondack Publishing at the LPN, mostly as the editor, and I’ve loved the work, the people and the journey.

I have a great team — from the front office to the newsroom to the press and mail rooms to our carriers and delivery drivers. Past and present, I’ve been in the trenches with these wonderful people, and I’m honored that I was able to work side by side with them for so long.

I’ve also had talented columnists, great partners in the community and very supportive readers. I enjoyed teaching newspaper skills to elementary, middle, high school and college students and young reporters.

To you all, I say thanks for the memories.

Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News Editor/Publisher Andy Flynn shows St. Bernard’s School third and fourth graders the front page of the latest Lake Placid News in the newsroom during a tour of the office building in Saranac Lake on Nov. 28.
(Enterprise photo — Elizabeth Izzo)

Andy Flynn,editor and publisher of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News, and former town of Jay supervisor Randy Douglas hosted a packed forum at the Wilmington Firehouse Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
(Enterprise photo — Elizabeth Izzo)