Just got back from driving down Abrams past the flu-shuttered St. Thomas Aquinas school, and saw two TV trucks parked at the school. Channel 5 and Channel 8 have already done standups – who knows which stations will be next?

What I can’t figure out is why a story that merits a couple of paragraphs on our blog gets all this attention from TV news. Poor Melissa Newton of Channel 5 was standing in front of the closed school at 5:30 this morning.

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