Congratulations, Shannon Nixon

This week, as we honor our fallen veterans and embrace the start of summer, we also wish our Marketing Director Shannon Nixon well as she departs her post at the Gazette for her exciting new chapter.

Shannon will be pursuing a graduate degree in psychology while earning related work experience with a Manhattan-based psychology clinic. Although this news is truly bittersweet for our publication: we are extremely proud of our colleague for her acceptance into this prestigious opportunity, but we will also miss her dearly.

Shannon was such an indispensable part of our team and one of the most multi-talented individuals with whom I’ve ever worked. She routinely had the uncanny ability to do a critical amount of work in about one-quarter of the amount of time that it takes normal humans like me to do. The depth and diversity of her talents is exhaustive from writing to marketing to tech-know how to organization and design — on top of her well-connected reach and understanding of our community. I cannot understate her genius and encouraging role, especially as we launched into our 2024 new ownership and rebrand, as well as our current and continued expansion of the Chautauqua Gazette.

Rest assured, we are tough and agile and will forge on without Shannon’s steady influence. We will continue to give our faith faithful readers and much-appreciated business and organizational partners the same go-to community newspaper you deserve. We will, however, forever be a stronger publication because of the time and talent she shared and indelible impact she made.

Congratulations, Shannon! On behalf of our publishing desk and your thousands of adoring readers and fans, keep rocking the world. (And please respond when I beg you to at least share an amazing story with us just for kicks, now and then!)