When it comes to running a sports department, there is no “I” in team.

To cover the bases, you need help and support to make sure things run efficiently. As I found out earlier in my journalism career, you can’t do it all.

When I took over as sports editor at the Winchester Sun in 2003, my predecessors had a system in place, and I just added my own touch to the foundation that had already been laid on the second-floor newsroom at 20 Wall Street.

It was then I became friends with Bill Thiry. He had a camera, submitted photos and he was good at his craft. We talked and because his sons, Bryan and Josh, played soccer at GRC, he was already at the games and it made perfect sense for Bill to shoot and submit.

He started on the local sports scene, covering athletic events at George Rogers Cl

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