Marking 40 years in the Neighborhood

Jan 11, 2025
Jan 11, 2025

Woster 1984 — Jim Woster in 1984, the year the Tri-State Neighbor was founded.
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Jim Woster

Associate Editor

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Jim Woster

It dawned on me the other day, that 40 years of time is nearly half of my entire life and the reason for this contemplation is that last year, 2024, the Tri-State Neighbor completed 40 years as a regional rural and agribusiness publication. Further, I write with a lot of pride that during that span, the old cattle guy wrote a column for each one. Somewhere my dad is grumping a bit about my boastfulness, but as the rodeo bull riders will tell you, “it ain’t bragging if you did it.”

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Jim is associate editor of Tri-State Neighbor and also works with the SDSU Alumni Foundation.