I pulled my Farragut Press out of my brick mailbox paper hole this evening and was shocked at tomorrow’s headline. On December 21, 2016 Farragut Press Editor/Publisher Dan Barile passed from this earthly life into his eternal reward. Since my family and I moved to Concord in December 1992 I have read the weekly Farragut Press regularly. The past 13 years Dan was the Editor/Publisher of the Farragut Press but has been around the paper longer than that.
Dan Barile photo from the 12/29/2016 Farragut Press front page
He always had a smile on his face. Dan was a Vietnam veteran and a New York native. Barile did an exceptional job working for the one weekly newspaper without being another Knox News Sentinel owned entity and a spin machine for a political agenda. It was and is what a community paper is suppose to be a “community paper”. Phil Dangle, owner of The Shrimp Dock is quoted along with many others in this weeks Farragut Press with what I consider the best summary of Dan’s life. “He (Dan Barile) was one of the throwbacks to the journalists that I grew up with. He was honest, he was sincere, he told the truth the way he saw it.”
Dan you did well! You made Farragut better! Thank you! Now Rest well my friend.
I worked for Dan at the Press several years ago. He was always tough but fair. Not one to mince words, you always knew where you stood with him. That’s a good thing in my book. I never had to guess what he was thinking. It’s weird to think he’s not there anymore just sitting at his desk being Dan. He was definitely one of a kind.