The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I dragged myself out of bed after a long City Hall meeting the night before. In my mind, I was already writing an article based on a mundane housing report.

My colleagues were already typing away in the Peterborough This Week newsroom when four planes were hijacked in the United States. With no radio or TV in the newsroom, we remained oblivious until Publisher Bruce Danford walked in, visibly shocked.

“My wife Kathy just called and said a second plane flew into the World Trade Center,” Bruce said. On the way into the office, he had heard about the first crash but didn’t realize it was part of a larger al-Qaida attack.

Within an hour, we had completely abandoned our current crop of stories. Editor in chief Wendy Gallagher drove out to the airport to find out what was happening with local flights. She met a set of........

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