Northeast Healthcare Systems and the Docksiders

Yesterday, I started working on a story I started to write a story about the Docksiders. The Docksiders are a jazz band from Gloucester High School who are going on a trip to Hawaii on Friday. I am going over there around 2:30 with a photographer to talk to some of the kids and get some quotes for the article, which will be published in tomorrow's paper. Yesterday, I also got to sit in on a press meeting with the editor-in-chief, a reporter, and the CEO of Northeast Healthcare Systems. I thought this was especially interesting because in light of the pregnancy scandal of 2008, this company has been part of an issue that very much pertains to teenagers. I don't really think I am supposed to say a lot about what was actually said in the meeting, but the meat of it was concerning primary care physicians in Gloucester and Addison Gilbert Hospital. It was really interesting for me to see this kind of meeting between the groups: the CEO brought three people with him, two of which said absolutely nothing during the meeting. I liked observing this kind of thing.
After I got out of the meeting, I started to write my article for the Docksiders. I called the musical director at the high school, David Adams, and interviewed him for a while. Then, I started working to type it out in InCopy. I really like this program--it makes it so much easier to see how long the article is in inches, not word count like in Microsoft Word. I think the school actually has the program, so I would like to see if we could eventually transfer from using QUARK to using the Adobe Suite.