News From The Newsroom - Editorial
Recent weeks have brought staffing changes to the Enterprise newsroom that we thought would be pertinent to share with our readers.
In late August, the Enterprise welcomed Aimee Rothman to the newsroom. Aimee joins us from the University of New Hampshire, where she earned a degree in English/journalism and a minor in business administration. She has spent the last few weeks getting to know Mashpee, integrating herself in the community, and familiarizing herself with the various issues of importance in town. In due time, we hope that Aimee will become a recognizable name and face for those who frequent town meetings, public hearings and community events.
Aimee will be splitting her time reporting for both our Mashpee and Sandwich editions. She can be reached by email at rothman@capenews.net.
This week, we also added another full-time reporter to the newsroom. Jamie Perkins will be our new full-time reporter covering the Town of Bourne. They will take over the role from longtime Bourne Enterprise reporter Michael Rausch, who has reliably been that paper’s full-time reporter for a number of years. Mike has taken on a new part-time role and will continue to report for the Enterprise, just in a reduced capacity.
Over the years, Mike has provided readers of all four of the Enterprise’s editions—not just Bourne—with consistent reporting of the highest caliber on a number of topics of critical impact to the Cape Cod region. Upper Cape Codders, both year-round and seasonal, have enjoyed the very ground-level community journalism that so many towns and counties across the nation are starved for. Mike’s contributions have been invaluable. We think our readers will quickly agree.
In other Enterprise news, we would like to thank our summer newsroom interns Kelly Broder and Trinity Poon for all of their hard work this summer. Their contributions to our coverage of the Upper Cape in recent months has been spectacular, and we wish them both the best as they return to their respective college campuses to start the new school year.
And finally, Bourne/Mashpee dual-editor Calli Remillard has continued to explore the Town of Mashpee’s people, places, and things in an effort to better serve the Mashpee community in her new role. Since beginning this role at the end of July, Calli has had countless conversations with residents, town officials, readers, and members of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in recent weeks, and looks forward to continuing those conversations (and starting new ones) as time goes on. There is much, much more work to be done, but Calli is greatly enjoying her time getting to know Mashpee and working to understand its people, places, and issues as intimately as she knows Bourne’s. You may see her out and about in town, as she is keen on exploring and is known to frequent the public library, local parks and waterbodies, and cemeteries, especially historic ones. As always, Calli can be reached by email at remillard@capenews.net.
We hope our readers share our excitement about these new developments. Despite the staffing changes, our commitment to you remains the same as it has for more than a century: to provide high-quality, accurate and timely reporting on what is going on in our communities. We look forward to ushering in a new generation of local news reporters with this enduring mission of ours in mind.