Each week, we search between the quotation marks to compile our favorite material from our reporters’ stories, interviews and elsewhere, and publish them here. We call it “Out of Context.”

To delve further into the stories, simply click the links within.

From the news desk

“I've had this disease for so long, and I've never really talked about it. Only my closest friends know.” -Sharon Goldhirsch

“I feel I failed.” -Ed Polewarczyk

“When a call doesn’t get answered, we would be the ones that would have to answer to that.” -Rob Ham

“Lincoln County’s workers commonly have the lowest or second lowest weekly wage in the state.” -Mary Ellen Barnes

“It was a calculation error.” -Northrup Fowler

“It's really a chance to get outside, go downtown; it's not as cold and it won't be covered in snow.” -Samantha Ricker

“I didn't want to get to a point when I dreaded coming to school, and I wasn't (at that point), at all.” -Tom Soule

"She just glowed. We dedicated the show to her.” -Garry Blackman Sr.

“There are a lot of municipal administrators that don't really understand the working components of TIFs. That's not the case in our town.” -Jim Chaousis

“I've got too much of a history with garbage to know what happens if that gets exposed. It's very expensive.” -Steve Lewis

“We saw the guy running, and then there was this hellacious crash, and then we look and there is a guy hanging on the rigging.” -Leisha MacDougall

“The under-performing ones, the ones that aren't meeting expectations, are being weeded out.” -Russell Brackett

Headline of the week

“Boats and Spose” by Ben Bulkeley