Editor, With much sadness, I read Danny Moffat’s Letter to the Press-Reporter. KPET is shuttered and off the air… hopefully, just for now.
Dear Editor: It was with some sadness that I read the story on the closing of radio station KPET in Lamesa. That little place up on the hill plays a major role in my childhood memories prior to my father leaving the radio business for the newspaper business in 1967. The newspaper provided a better living, but for a 10-year-old kid, there was nothing as exciting as radio.
Editor, It was December, 2001 when I first went out to the radio station to record my very first “Just A Minute” program. I jokingly told Don Sitton that I hoped the program wouldn’t close down his radio station.
The late Will Rogers claimed that all he knew, he read in the newspapers.
O ur daughter, Sarah, is a newlywed. She and her husband relocated to Lamesa last summer, and while they waited to close on their home, they lived with us for about six weeks. I was nervous about this and wanted it to go well. It was an opportunity to get to know our son-in-law, Will, better, as well as to get to know our daughter as an adult, married woman.
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