While our current Evening Sun reporters are working to bring you our Progress Chenango 2009 special sections this week, I’ve asked five of my favorite ES alumni to fill in as guest columnists. I hope you enjoy catching up with them as much as I did. – Ed.

By Christian Vischi

Progress – at least in my days at The Evening Sun – was a dreaded word. It meant late nights, crunched deadlines and hair-pulling. Not like two individuals in a cat-fight; no, often it was your own, and wads of it.