So long and thanks for all the fish

Earlier, we exclusively reported on the controversial firing of Victoria News editor Keith Norbury. The firing - which happened Friday - was, in part, connected to an advertiser complaint about an article written by reporter Brennan Clarke. Mr. Clarke resigned earlier in the week. And those departures are going to leave the Vancouver Island News Group's capital city newspapers a bit short-handed. After all, fellow reporter Thomas Winterhoff also cleaned out his desk last week, having been hired as a communications officer at the University of Victoria. And Messrs. Clarke and Winterhoff's coleague Andrea Lavigne, who is leaving on a trip to Asia, is scheduled to say her goodbyes this week. Meanwhile, former Esquimalt News editor Vern Faulkner - who had been effectively working as an assistant editor for the Oak Bay News, the Saanich News and the Victoria News - departed on July 25 to become managing editor of The Prince Albert Daily Herald. And Victoria News reporter Mark Brown packed his bags on May 1 to teach English overseas.