Good bye, my friend. Good luck and safe travels. It has been my pleasure to know you.

Best wishes and safe journeys.
Steve Russell

It's been a pleasure. Best of luck in your next adventures.
Susan

Happy New Adventure Aubry! We met your first month in Salem when you sat with a group of Saltonstall teachers. You were keenly interested in what we were doing with a new science program and how it would impact kids. I have been impressed at how you have maintained your evident interest, curiosity and up-beat perspective throughout your development of Patch Salem. Thank you for giving Salem residents another honest lens through which to view our city and the people and events that shape it. Good luck!

You were such a tremendous help with our efforts and a real asset to the city, thanks for all you did and good luck in the future! We'll miss you!

Aubry, we will miss you so much-- thank you for your leadership in growing Patch during its early years! Your work in recruiting writers (and covering news yourself when there weren't any!) and bloggers has made Patch the living community organism it is today. THANK YOU-- and best of luck in the future!

happy trails aubry and good luck.

Salem is a better place for having had you serving us for the last two years, and will be a little bit diminished with you gone. Patch is a great tool for a community, but ultimately it's a reflection on the local editor. And that's why Salem Patch has been the best Patch site around. Best wishes!

Best of luck Aubry! Job well done. You've brought so much to the community, thank you! Wherever your journey leads, your brains, insight, heart, spirit and integrity will serve you well.

Sorry to hear you are leaving, Aubry........thank you for all your efforts with the Patch! Best of luck for all your future endevors!

Thank you, Aubry, for all your hard work and diplomacy. Salem will not be the same without you. Please, don't be a stranger. I'll keep a seat at the bar ready for you. Cheers!

"Salem is sort of a big fruitcake — we're all different kinds of nuts, fruits and spices. Our variety is what makes this place so exciting and unique. Sometimes, however, we could all work a bit harder to co-exist peacefully in the batter that is our city."

Truer words were never more eloquently spoken. I know I'll miss you... and the flipflops, too.

Best wishes, Aubry. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

Good luck in your future endeavors, we all appreciate the great job you did.

Your impact on this community has been enormous. I was honored to work beside you for two years. Best of luck my friend, though you won't need it <3

Job well done and best of luck for the future.

I am so sad to hear, you've been such an asset to Salem and allowed many to be connected in a way that wasn't possible before Patch arrived here. I personally would like to thank you for making my family feel like we matter in Salem by bringing stories that are important to us to the forefront. You will be greatly missed! Where are you headed?

Good luck and best wishes to you Aubry; come back soon and often (we love tourists!)

You will be missed!

You have done a stellar job with Patch, Aubry, and the host of your next adventure will be lucky to have you.

Best of luck Aubry in your new adventure. Auguroni Paula & Giovanni

Good luck in what ever adventure you are headed too.

Thank you, Aubry for all of your hard work and support. You will be missed! Best wishes to you in all if your future endeavors!

Aubry, thank you for the beautiful words 2 years ago and today about my grandfather Leonard McGrane! You captured his spirit perfectly. We miss him dearly.. Best of luck on your future adventures!

Very nice goodbye, so well stated. You will be sorely missed and I've greatly enjoyed working with you. Best of luck in whatever new adventure you choose!

Sorry to see you leave but happy that you have a new adventure to pursue. Your charm and grace will be missed. It's been a real pleasure to work with you. Thank you for all your work in building Salem Patch into something special for our city.

Aubrey, I don't know you or your work (forgive me, my family is in Austin, TX), but Leonard McGrane was my husband's (and for 14 years my) Grampy. Your words were so moving and made me stop and think about him today. I have tears and thank you for remember a true member of the Salem community. Good luck on your future and thank you for helping me reflect on our McGrane past.

Good luck to you Aubrey! You have done an amazing job!

Thank you for your friendship, I know great things lie in store for you, my fellow Granite Stater.

P.S. -- There are no words to express my gratitude for you introducing Howling Wolf to me. That place is like a religious experience for the tongue.

Good luck on your new adventures. You will be missed.

Melanie McKinnon
It Starts With ME!

Thanks Aubry. Please let us know about your next "adventure". Have a chicken wing for me wherever you end up!

Good Luck Aubry. Salem's loss is another's gain. Wishing you all the best.

Cindy
The Chalkboard

Aubry, thanks for keeping Salem informed of breaking news, for enthusiastically supporting Recycling Committee events, and for putting up with all my requests to delete offensive comments. You have big shoes to fill. Wishing you the very best.

Aubry,when you met Lenny McGrane you met one of Salem's finest.I knew Lenny for many years and it was an honor. All The Best

Aubry, we are sad to see you go. Besides being a good reporter/editor, you are a nice person and we can never have enough of those around. Hope things turn out well for you in your next assignment in life

Aubry, thank you for the kinds words you wrote about my father. Dad was truly a walking history book. To know him was to loive him, Leonard was a fine man. I can tell you that Dad talked about you often since that day at the common. We all miss him dearly. It was my pleasure to have met you at the Veterans Day Ceremony in 2011. Good Luck with your new adventure.
Leonard McGrane Jr.

Thanks Aubry for all your hard work. We appreciate what you have done for Salem. You will be missed. Good luck in your next endeavor.

Your article stirred a nostalgia for Salem in me that's always there, but is rarely as pronounced as after your piece drew it from dormancy. I was born and raised in Lowell, and I'm back there now, but it's truly Salem that will always be "home." My approximately 8 years there was just replayed in full as I read...thank you for keeping me connected to the city I love, and best of luck in new endeavors.

I've enjoyed reading the Patch while you have been editor. Thank you and good luck on your future endeavors.

All the best to you for the future, I am sure you will do great things in life. Best wishes, Thomas.

Salem will miss its' first Patch Editor and it seems the last two years featured many newsworthy reports. From politics to weather I read Patch and I even contributed pictures to help out. Although I'm sure I saw you in town it was nice to see you host the Halloween Parade this year. Who is to continue Salem Patch?

We could not be prouder of you! Let the next adventure begin...xo Mom and Dad

Beyond excited for you. Clearly I'm not the only one. We came in together. You helped me run my Patch site when I was losing my mind, which was just about all the time. You helped me make the right decisions on stories. You calmed me down when I was seconds from firing an angry email to a reader or a boss. You set an example for me. Salem and I were lucky to have you on our side. Get 'em, Aubs.

I enjoyed getting to know you during the summer of 2010 you when you hired me to write up business listings for Salem Patch. Best of luck to you in NYC!