Around the Banks: Good comes from hard times

We have often heard the expression "No pain, no gain," used in reference to increasing one's physical fitness, meaning "one must push one's self in order to become physically fit." The same could be said of mental acuity. Riverbend News will celebrate its first birthday on Thursday, Aug. 5. Congratulations to Emerald Greene Parsons and all the staff at the newspaper. I was thinking about things borne out of pain. Riverbend News is one of those businesses that came about as result of the fiscal pain suffered by Community Newspaper Holdings and their decision to "shut down" three area newspapers: The Suwannee Democrat, The Jasper News and the Mayo Free Press. At least two of these newspaper