Editorial

The times, they are a changing

One should never speak of the end of a period because we are always at the beginning of a new one. That’s how the late, great, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes put it in one of his rulings many years ago.
The times they are changing is what Bob Dylan sang in one of his most famous tunes in the early 1960s.
He knew of what he wrote.
The times are changing here at the Patriot.
The Independent Newspaper Group, owners of the Patriot, have merged with the Callery Press, owners of the Charlestown Bridge and the Beacon Hill Times.
Next week, our readers will pick up the combined version of the two editions to be known as the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge.
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge will be delivered free of charge to your door and will be available on newsstands for .25 cents.
Publication day will be Thursday.
To the delight of many of our readers, the newspaper will be tabloid size.
The Warren Street Patriot-Bridge office will be the place to go for ads and to leave off stories or press releases while the old Patriot office is being rehabbed.
With the Patriot-Bridge merger, the Bridge staff has become part of a larger company – and as such – our readers can expect and depend on a vibrant, newsworthy, honest, neighborhood weekly edition with everything they have come to expect from their community weekly.
After all, this isn’t our newspaper. It’s the community’s newspaper.
This merger brings together owners who share important philosophies.
The combined effort is to improve and enlarge the newspaper and have it possess a wider understanding of the Charlestown community than ever before.
Ten years ago, Charlestown was a far different place than it is today.
Ten years from today, it will be different again.
Nothing remains the same forever.
All things change.
The Patriot-Bridge is something new coming to life in a bigger way.
As Dylan once wrote, “Some people are busy dying and some people are busy being born.”
The reborn Patriot-Bridge next week will be a better newspaper than either the Patriot or the Bridge this week.
Abraham Lincoln said it best (although not about the Patriot-Bridge merger) -- “A house divided cannot stand.”
We are one paper now united for the neighborhood and owned by the community which is you, our readers.

Paul Scapicchio’s decision

Our city councilor, Paul Scapicchio, is going to step down.
He is going for bigger and better things at the law firm where he has been practicing – Mintz-Levin-Cohn- Ferris-Glovsky-Popeo.
We want to wish him the best in his future endeavors. Scapicchio is an honest, intelligent man with a great future ahead of him in law.
We are losing a first-class city councillor.
The race is already on to replace him.