I just read that Lauren Do is retiring her blog. While I'm sad to lose a near-daily read, I'm happy for her being able to have a lot more free time, and thankful for all she's done for our town with her tireless research and for her previous live-tweeting of council meetings.

I'm honestly not sure if the Wellness Center would have been able to break ground without her exhaustive debunking of Carmen Reid's manufactured claims of historical "significance" of the site. And I think a lot of local political shenanigans might have been swept under the rug had it not been the subject of her laser focus.

She was not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed. Thank you, Lauren, if you happen to be lurking around these parts of the internet.